borscht
any of various eastern European soups made with beets, cabbage, potatoes, or other vegetables and served hot or chilled, often with sour cream.
Origin of borscht
1- Also borsch [bawrsh], /bɔrʃ/, borshch [bawrsh, bawrshch]. /bɔrʃ, bɔrʃtʃ/.
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How to use borscht in a sentence
On dessert menu at one new hotel, a “Mondae”—frozen lard covered in borsch with a turnip on top.
Up to a Point: PJ O’Rourke on Sochi and Senate Slackers | P. J. O’Rourke | February 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMy Israeli friends love that old Borsch-belt joke, that anti-Semitism means disliking Jews more than necessary.
I shall not go to church, though honest old Clara Petroffskovna may stare and cross herself in holy horror, and spoil the borsch.
Ghetto Tragedies | Israel Zangwill
British Dictionary definitions for borscht
borsch (bɔːʃ) or borshch (bɔːʃtʃ)
/ (bɔːʃt) /
a Russian and Polish soup based on beetroot
Origin of borscht
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