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blintze

[blints, blint-suh]
–noun Jewish Cookery.
a thin pancake folded or rolled around a filling, as of cheese or fruit, and fried or baked.
Also, blintz [blints] .


Origin:
1900–05; < Yiddish blintse; cf. Byelorussian blints-, s. of blinéts, dim. of blin pancake; see blin
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blintz   (blĭnts)   
n.  A thin, rolled blini, usually filled with cottage cheese, that is folded and then sautéed or baked and often served with sour cream.

[Yiddish blintse, from Belarusian blintsy, pl. of blinets, diminutive of blin, pancake, from Old Russian mlinŭ, blinŭ; see melə- in Indo-European roots.]
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