Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See sauer-kraut.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as sauerkraut.

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  • noun Archaic form of sauerkraut.

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Examples

  • We have known many persons who would not touch mutton, and others who would rather starve than eat oysters; while we ourselves revolt at sourkrout, which, nevertheless, millions of Germans, French, and Americans consider delicious.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various

  • All remonstrances on the boys 'part were useless; and, after being so miraculously preserved from the perils of the deep, they wound up the history of their adventures when "lost at sea," as David pathetically remarked, by being "carried off prisoners to Germany by a lot of cabbage-soup-eating, sourkrout Teutons, who were almost bigger fools than they looked!"

    Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

  • The air was filled with the exhalations of the living, beside the smell from the potatoes and sourkrout, which was undergoing the cooking process, the sundry boots and shoes lying around or being under repair in the hands of the father, and a few pieces of linen hanging behind the stove for the purpose of drying.

    Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Charles Munde

  • The spelling is variously sauerkraut (the correct German form), sourkraut and sourkrout.

    Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms Henry Louis 1921

  • In the Rue Montorgueil and the Rue Montmartre were other tempting-looking groceries and restaurants, from whose basements appetising odours were wafted, with glorious shows of game and poultry, and preserved-provision shops, which last displayed beside their doors open kegs overflowing with yellow sourkrout suggestive of old lacework.

    The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871

  • When we got up next morning our hostess served breakfast in a flat tray, containing first seals 'flesh and fat, with a sort of sourkrout of fermented willow-leaves, then seals' liver, and finally seals 'blood -- all frozen.

    The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

  • When the officers of the Medical Department find anti-scorbutics necessary for the health of the troops, the commanding officer may order issues of fresh vegetables, pickled onions, sourkrout, or molasses, with an extra quantity of rice and vinegar.

    Regulations for the Medical Department of the C.S. Army. Confederate States of America. War Dept 1862

  • Taken with sourkrout and stewed prunes, they produce fumes of self-conceit.

    The Parisians — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Taken with sourkrout and stewed prunes, they produce fumes of self-conceit.

    The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • A pound of preserved meat, together with one pint of vegetable or concentrated soup per man, was substituted for one pound of salt beef weekly; a proportion of beer and wine was served in lieu of spirits; and a small quantity of sourkrout and pickles, with as much vinegar as could be used, was issued at regular intervals.

    Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1 William Edward Parry 1822

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