kumiss
Americannoun
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fermented mare's or camel's milk, used as a beverage by Asian nomads.
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a similar drink prepared from other milk, especially that of the cow, and used for dietetic and medicinal purposes.
noun
Etymology
Origin of kumiss
1590–1600; < Russian kumys < Turkic kιmιz
Example Sentences
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They drink a beverage called kumiss, which is fermented mare's milk.
From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Robert Shea
Their universal kumiss, corresponding to the Turkish yaourt, or coagulated milk, and other forms of lacteal dishes, sometimes mixed with meal, form the chief diet of the poor.
From Across Asia on a Bicycle by Thomas Gaskell Allen
They gave him tea and kumiss, and had a sheep killed, and gave him mutton to eat.
From What Men Live By and Other Tales by Aylmer Maude
As far as the men were concerned, drinking kumiss and tea, eating mutton, and playing on their pipes, was all they cared about.
From What Men Live By and Other Tales by Aylmer Maude
Young chicks who have lost their mothers by death, and whose fathers are of a shiftless and improvident nature, may be fed on kumiss, two parts; moxie, eight parts; distilled water, ten parts.
From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson
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