wafer

• Sustantivo que designa una galleta o pastelillo fino y crujiente, un pequeño disco adhesivo para sellar cartas, o un disco fino de pan sin levadura usado en ceremonias religiosas, especialmente en la Eucaristía.

A noun referring to a thin, crisp cake or cookie, a small adhesive disk used for sealing letters, or a thin disk of unleavened bread used in religious services, especially the Eucharist.

1. Sealing diskC1formal

   A small, adhesive disk made of paste, used historically to seal letters or documents.

   oblea selladora

   • He moistened the wafer and pressed it onto the envelope flap.
   • The letter was sealed with a red wax wafer.
   • Old documents often show remnants of the sealing wafer.

2. Thin crisp cakeA2formalculinary

   A small, thin, crisp cake or cookie, often eaten as a snack or used in desserts.

   Galleta o barquillo fino y crujiente

   • She enjoyed a vanilla wafer with her afternoon tea.
   • The ice cream sandwich was made with chocolate wafers.
   • He crumbled a wafer over the pudding for texture.

   Sinónimosbiscuitcookie

3. Eucharistic breadB2formal

   A thin disk of unleavened bread used in Christian religious services, especially during the celebration of the Eucharist.

   hostia

   • The priest distributed the consecrated wafer to the congregation.
   • During communion, each person receives a small wafer.
   • The wafer symbolizes the body of Christ in the ritual.

   Sinónimoshost