luchi

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Bengali লুচি (luci).

Noun[edit]

luchi

  1. puffed bread, fried in oil, made from flour, a Bengali specialty.
    • 2013, Nina Mukerjee Furstenau, Biting Through the Skin: An Indian Kitchen in America's Heartland:
      My favorite childhood bread was not roti, though; it was luchi—deep fried and puffy, warm and fresh, and simply amazing when rolled up with sugar.

Italian[edit]

Noun[edit]

luchi m

  1. plural of luco