blini
plural noun
pancakes made with yeast and either white or buckwheat flour and traditionally served during Shrovetide with caviar and sour cream.
blinis
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a variation of
blini.
Example Sentences
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From the folk costumes to the blinis, the emphasis here is on tradition.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025
Grocery stores sell sauerkraut, borscht and blinis with cottage cheese.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
Clad in blue aprons, they cooked blinis together in 2018 when Xi visited Vladivostok for the Eastern Economic Forum.
From Reuters ● Mar. 18, 2023
Quinn also received a cooler filled with blinis and crème fraîche along with an extra 125 grams of caviar, which was a gift from the restaurant owners.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2022
Vatroushki Russia seems to have been the cradle of all sorts of blinis and blintzes, and perhaps the first, of them to be made was vatroushki, a variant of the blintzes above.
From The Complete Book of Cheese by Robert Carlton Brown
