Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation, and often served with sour cream. Also, as used in the U.S., a sour cabbage soup, called in Russian
shchi .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
borscht .
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- noun a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation
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Examples
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I remember flying back to NYC from a 2 wk business trip in LA, arriving home at 1am and riding my bike to Veselka for goat cheese pierogis and borsht - JUST WHAT I NEEDED!
The Last Remnant of Kiev Comes Down Brooks of Sheffield 2008
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Clubs are back on, grants are being written, and bowls of borsht are again in front of me.
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Frozen Beet Soup with Bay Scallop: The components of borsht, deconstructed and made better by the addition of a scallop.
Augieland: 2006
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Frozen Beet Soup with Bay Scallop: The components of borsht, deconstructed and made better by the addition of a scallop.
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The two crudest and most venerable stereotypes of anti-Semitic lore — the Jew as sexual defiler and malevolent destroyer with a supporting cast of cheats and vulgarians — move in a Jewish ambience whose authenticity is guaranteed by appetizing borsht, wonderfully mimicked intonations, and comic folkways.
Philip Roth and the Jews: An Exchange Syrkin, Marie 1974
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For reasonably priced, traditional Ukrainian food - borsht (soup), varenyky (stuffed dumplings) and true "chicken Kiev" - you cannot beat Budmo
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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He ate borsht and his mom's homemade mushroom soup.
Kuklas Korner Paul 2010
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We had a traditional appetizer of horsemeat, followed by a borsht like soup.
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Little Poland, Second Avenue and 12th Street, is cheap but good: borsht ($3), pierogies ($4) and bigos ($7), a hunters stew with sauerkraut, sausage, cabbage and plums.
Berks county news 2009
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And, Boss, you look like you have a genetic predisposition to borsht and garlic, too.
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