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barszcz

barszcz noun: polish borscht.

Noun

barszcz (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Polish borscht.
    • Slimakowa looked him up and down, gave him a bowl of barszcz and another of potatoes, and told him to wash in the river.1921, Selected Polish Tales, page 7
    • She poured herself another glass of Bulgarian white, and spooned up the remainder of her barszcz before polishing off the small meat pasty that is always served with beetroot soup.1990, Anton Gill, Berlin to Bucharest: Travels in Eastern Europe, page 62

Examples of barszcz in a sentence

  • BIALY BARSZCZ WIELKANOCNA (WHITE EASTER BARSZCZ) […] Into wide soup bowls, ladle barszcz.1991, Tom Bernardin, “Poland”, in The Ellis Island Immigrant Cookbook, updated edition, New York, N.Y.: Tom Bernardin, Inc., published July...
  • Women bustled about laying out large platters of chicken, kielbasa rings, heaping bowls of golabki, pierogi and steaming tureens of barszcz.2004, Helen McCourt Mentek, “The Wheel of Life”, in Ripples on a Puddle: A Collection of Short Stories, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford...

Forms of barszcz

alternative formborszcz

Origin of barszcz

Unadapted borrowing from Polish barszcz. Doublet of borscht.

Questions about barszcz

What does barszcz mean?
Barszcz means polish borscht.
How do you use barszcz in a sentence?
BIALY BARSZCZ WIELKANOCNA (WHITE EASTER BARSZCZ) […] Into wide soup bowls, ladle barszcz.
What part of speech is barszcz?
Barszcz is a noun.

Words near barszcz in the dictionary

  1. barstools
  2. Barstovian
  3. Barstow
  4. barstowite
  5. Barstows
  6. barszcz
  7. BART
  8. Bart Simpson
  9. Bart syndrome
  10. Bart-Pumphrey syndrome
  11. Barta

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