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  • 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

  • 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

  • Clubs are back on, grants are being written, and bowls of borsht are again in front of me.

    Kyle’s Journey in Armenia » Blog Archive » Kyle Who? 2007

  • Frozen Beet Soup with Bay Scallop: The components of borsht, deconstructed and made better by the addition of a scallop.

    Augieland: 2006

  • Frozen Beet Soup with Bay Scallop: The components of borsht, deconstructed and made better by the addition of a scallop.

    MINIBAR: 593 chucknorrisillion stars 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • He ate borsht and his mom's homemade mushroom soup.

    Kuklas Korner Paul 2010

  • We had a traditional appetizer of horsemeat, followed by a borsht like soup.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2010

  • 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

  • And, Boss, you look like you have a genetic predisposition to borsht and garlic, too.

    Biblical Evidence for Catholicism 2009

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