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plural laddus
A ball-shaped sweet made with flour and sugar, popular in the Indian subcontinent. quotations examples
His foster-mother Yashoda caught him stealing laddus.
1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 107
Employees furiously pack ornate boxes containing laddoos enriched with ghee, spongy rasgula and all manner of colorful sweets, often made with dairy, sugar and nuts and sometimes topped with a layer of edible silver foil.
2022 October 17, Priya Krishna, “It’s Not Diwali Without Mithai”, in The New York Times