Definitions
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- noun A
Balkan food dish ofminced meat.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Charcoal-grilled pljeskavica and cevapi … have become common in neighborhoods like Astoria and Ridgewood in Queens, where Bosnians and Croatians, Serbs and Montenegrins now open businesses side by side.
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The menu had a lot of food items that sounded new to me - cevapi, raznjic, plejeskavica - but the descriptions were familiar.
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The menu had a lot of food items that sounded new to me - cevapi, raznjic, plejeskavica - but the descriptions were familiar.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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He helped translate for the waitress, who was struggling in broken English to explain to the few South African customers what the menu items cevapi, raznjia and bubezi were.
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Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is famous for sausage-shaped cevapi, the size of a fat pinky finger, served piled on bread or eaten by hand.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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"When I was young we would go to Sarajevo and instead of going skiing, I would go to the town and get literally drunk on cevapi," said Vladimir Ocokoljic, the owner of Kafana, a cozy Serbian restaurant in the East Village.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Depending on your Slavic country of origin, cevapi, kjebapi, mititei and cevapcici are different spellings of the same thing.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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In the northern parts of the region, near Romania, pljeskavica and cevapi are traditionally served just with chopped onions and kajmak, a thick, tangy clotted cream usually made with sheep's or cow's milk.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Charcoal-grilled pljeskavica and cevapi, pronounced chay-VOP-ee, have become common in neighborhoods like Astoria and Ridgewood in Queens, where Bosnians and Croatians, Serbs and Montenegrins now open businesses side by side.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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For pljeskavica and cevapi, the entire animal is fair game.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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