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kvass

[kvahs, kwahs] Origin

kvass

[kvahs, kwahs]
noun
a Russian beer made from fermenting rye or barley and having a dark color and sour taste.
Also, quass.


Origin:
1545–55; < Russian kvas
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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kvass, kvas or quass (kvɑːs)
 
n
an alcoholic drink of low strength made in Russia and E Europe from cereals and stale bread
 
[C16: from Russian kvas; related to Old Slavic kvasĭ yeast, Latin cāseus cheese]
 
kvas, kvas or quass
 
n
 
[C16: from Russian kvas; related to Old Slavic kvasĭ yeast, Latin cāseus cheese]
 
quass, kvas or quass
 
n
 
[C16: from Russian kvas; related to Old Slavic kvasĭ yeast, Latin cāseus cheese]

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kvass
Rus. fermented drink made from rye or barley, c.1553, from Rus. kvas "leaven," from O.C.S. kvasu "yeast," cognate with L. caseus "cheese."
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