Definitions

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  • noun A European form of soured cream or crème fraîche.

Etymologies

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From Russian сметана (smetána).

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Examples

  • This salty, sour and often spicy soup combined with meat or fish and topped with smetana, Russian sour cream, is delicious.

    Must-Try Foods Of The World 2010

  • This salty, sour and often spicy soup combined with meat or fish and topped with smetana, Russian sour cream, is delicious.

    Must-Try Foods Of The World 2010

  • This salty, sour and often spicy soup combined with meat or fish and topped with smetana, Russian sour cream, is delicious.

    Must-Try Foods Of The World 2010

  • This salty, sour and often spicy soup combined with meat or fish and topped with smetana, Russian sour cream, is delicious.

    Must-Try Foods Of The World 2010

  • Walleye backcountry canada canoeing dusan smetana fishing missinaibi river photo gallery photos

    Death by Walleye: An exclusive gallery from photographer Dusan Smetana 2006

  • The original Russian salad was made with smetana, a thick, slightly sour cream used in Russian and Finnish cooking.

    The Comrad's Russian Salad: Ensalada Rusa de la Comadre 2006

  • Mercedes degenerated sadly; got monstrously fat; too indolent to gnaw, let her teeth grow to a preposterous length; and in the end died of a surfeit of _smetana_.

    Grey Roses Henry Harland 1883

  • Komm - who graduated as a geophysicist before becoming a fashion entrepreneur then finding his calling as a chef at age 34 having entered the industry as a restaurant owner - makes liberal use of methylcellulose, a thickening agent once to spin out smetana, the Russian version of sour cream.

    Forbes.com: News Sally Howard 2012

  • This salty, sour and often spicy soup combined with meat or fish and topped with smetana, Russian sour cream, is delicious.

    CANOE Travel Features 2010

  • This salty, sour and often spicy soup combined with meat or fish and topped with smetana, Russian sour cream, is delicious.

    Forbes.com: News 2010

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  • the sour cream often served with borscht.

    November 1, 2008