borsch
(bɔːʃ, bɔrʃtʃ)
Also borscht, borshch, bortsch.
[Russ. borshch.]
A Russian soup of several ingredients, esp. beetroot and cabbage.
| 1884 J. Paget Let. 2 Sept. in Mem. & Lett. (1901) ii. vi. 346 A real Russian dinner—first there was a strange thing called Borsch. 1927 Blackw. Mag. Sept. 294/1 Caviare, crimson bowls of bortsch, with thick seasoned cream. 1929 Daily Tel. 22 Jan. 7/6 The borscht is a delicious consommé of beef and duck, ham, beetroot. 1939 Collier's 21 Jan. 40/1 The other new words came in a steady flood: Big time..the borscht circuit (Catskill Mt. summer resorts booking life-of-the-party m.c.'s). 1963 V. Nabokov Gift iii. 153 She was slowly mixing a white exclamation mark of sour cream into her borshch. |