Stolen vs. Stollen

Stolenadjective

That has been stolen.

Stollennoun

A traditional German cake eaten at Christmas time, made with nuts, raisins and other dried fruits.

Stolen

p. p. of Steal.

Stollen

Stollen (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtɔlən] (listen) or [ʃtɔln] (listen)) is a fruit bread of nuts, spices, and dried or candied fruit, coated with powdered sugar or icing sugar and often containing marzipan. It is a traditional German bread eaten during the Christmas season, when it is called Weihnachtsstollen (after , the German word for Christmas) or Christstollen (after Christ).

‘Weihnachten’;

Stolenadjective

taken dishonestly;

‘the purloined letter’;