Kugelhopf

US: (ko̅o̅′gəl hopf′, -hôpf′)

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Ku•gel•hopf  (ko̅o̅′gəl hopf′, -hôpf′), n. [German Cookery.]

1. Food a sweetened bread, flavored with raisins and almonds, baked in a ring-shaped mold, and usually dusted with powdered sugar before serving.

• Late Latin cuculla; see cowl¹) + -hopf, -hupf, noun, nominal derivative of Middle High German hopfen to hop¹, skip, jump; apparently from the cake's tendency to overflow the pan in a shape likened to the headgear
• German Gugelhopf (origin, originally Swiss German), Gugelhupf (origin, originally Austrian, south German dialect, dialectal), equivalent. to Gugel a hood with a liripipe and partial covering for the shoulders, worn in the Middle Ages (Middle High German gugel, Old High German chugela, cucula
• 1885–90