bulla
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The store sold everyday goods and featured a large brick oven that was used to make its famous bulla cakes, flavorful flat pastries made with flour, ginger and molasses.
From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2021
In ancient times, a seal stamp, or bulla, was used to authenticate documents or items.
From Fox News • Apr. 1, 2019
The word is derived from the Early English bille, Anglo-Latin billa, from Latin bulla, in the medieval sense of “seal.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
L. bullire to be in a bubbling motion, from bulla bubble; akin to Gr.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
Occiput less inclined anterodorsally; top nearly flat, less arched than that of G. b. industrius; auditory bulla averaging slightly larger and less inflated.
From Subspeciation in Pocket Gophers of Kansas, [KU. Vol. 1 No. 11] by Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.