borscht
[bawrsht]
- any of various eastern European soups made with beets, cabbage, potatoes, or other vegetables and served hot or chilled, often with sour cream.
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Also borsch [bawrsh] /bɔrʃ/, borshch [bawrsh, bawrshch] /bɔrʃ, bɔrʃtʃ/.
Origin of borscht
1880–85; < Yiddish borsht; compare Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Russian borshch soup with red beets as ingredient; or directly < East Slavic
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Contemporary Examples
Proving that Russian food is more than borscht, Mari Vanna in Dupont is cozy and offers hearty food that will fill you right up.
It goes without saying that borscht and varenyky (Ukrainian stuffed dumplings) are a must try.
Whenever one of us needed a carrot for borscht or a hand to move a drunk out of the elevator, the help arrived at once.
She came to school toting “shame-based food” like borscht, hot potato salad, and cotletten-and-ketchup sandwiches.
Historical Examples
Far from black bread and borscht, he found the food excellent.
CombatDallas McCord Reynolds
Such jokes would have made them about as popular as the Borscht Circuit comedian who told a funny story about Dachau in 1946.
Anything You Can Do ...Gordon Randall Garrett
borscht
borsch (bɔːʃ) or borshch (bɔːʃtʃ)
- a Russian and Polish soup based on beetroot
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Word Origin
C19: from Russian borshch
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Word Origin and History for borscht
n.
1884, from Russian borshch "cow parsnip," which was an original recipe ingredient. Borscht belt "region of predominantly Jewish resorts in and around the Catskill Mountains of New York" (also known as the Yiddish Alps) is by 1938.
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