Definitions
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- noun A type of
soup from Russia made fromcabbage .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And if that doesn't take your fancy you could always get stuck into the nation's favourite dish of cabbage soup known as shchi or, as an alternative, Rassolnik - a salty-sour cucumber stew.
mirror.co.uk - Home 2009
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Inside, guests sat down to a five-course meal including Siberian pelmeni, a ravioli-like dish filled with venison, and green shchi soup, with chicken and sorrel.
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There's another way to describe borshch that doesn't contain beets; shchi ... although it normally wouldn't have tomatoes in it.
Cabbage Borscht aka TBTAM 2007
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But I did -- blini to start with, cold spicy boiled wild boar, which I almost can't say; baked stag ham; shchi -- if any of you who are local know what shchi is, it's a cabbage soup -- trout; goose and red wine; and then - I don't even know what this means in French or English -- plombir.
Readout To The Pool By Senior Administration Official ITY National Archives 2000
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_shchi_ (cabbage-soup) sends up its perpetual incense, and the samovar of cheap tea is never empty.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various
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"I dine at home on shchi and kasha, with which I am quite content.
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