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

According to Pliny the elder, the bulla, or amulet, was first hung by Tarquinius Priscus on the neck of his son.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various

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

Te mors confodiet cauda Trigonis aquosi, Atque eris exanimis moriens uno ictu homo bulla.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis