- a variation of blini.
bliny
Americanplural noun
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"I wrote serenely, as if eating bliny," he says, and elsewhere picks up an ashtray and offers to have a story about it ready for the next day.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Wrote Gogol: "Moscow is an old home-keeping person, it bakes bliny, it looks from afar and listens, without rising from the armchair, to the tale of what goes on in the world."
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Dobrynya lurked near the tray of bliny Mama had made, sneaking one after another until Mama approached him.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
They needed the goat milk to make the cheese and to add to the bliny batter itself.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
She turned to her mother, who stood frozen by the bliny tray, one hand clutched over her heart.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Twa gods guides me: the ane of tham is blin, Yea and a bairn brocht up in vanitie; The next a wife ingenrit of the sea, And lichter nor a dauphin with her fin.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2012
Then, with huge exaggerated steps, it marched to the blin piece.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
It picked up the blin but, instead of eating it, tossed the piece over its feathery shoulder, north, toward where Kin’s house hid in the ravine.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Dobrynya just smiled and stuck the rest of the blin in his mouth.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
This time when Anya threw blin at it, it didn’t eat.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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