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blintsi

blintsi noun: a type of flat pancakes made from very thin batter.

Noun

blintsi pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A type of flat pancakes made from very thin batter.
    • A lot of our own traditional food is served and this is what I would choose to have. I don't mind any other Canadian food, but I'd still like to have some of our good old borshch, pirogi and many other things that our people are making. They're so delicious and good to have once in awhile;^([sic])...1975 August 22, Koozma J. Tarasoff, quoting a farmer in northeast Saskatchewan, “Borshch, pirogi...and corn flakes”, in Traditional Doukhobor Folkways: An Ethnographic and Biographic Record of...
    • Apart from recipes and culinary advice, the book [Please to the Table] is stuffed, like blintsi with meat, with various information about customs, traditions and festivals of the peoples of the former Soviet Union. These informative blintsi are served with the dressing of numerous quotations from...1991 December 17, Vitali Vitaliev, “Lenin leaves behind an empty larder”, in The Age, 138th year, number 42,603, Melbourne, Vic., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23, column 4

Examples of blintsi in a sentence

  • They're so delicious and good to have once in awhile;^([sic]) also lapshevnik, lapsha, vareniki and blintsi.1975 August 22, Koozma J. Tarasoff, quoting a farmer in northeast Saskatchewan, “Borshch, pirogi...and corn flakes”, in Traditional...
  • These informative blintsi are served with the dressing of numerous quotations from Chekhov, Gogol, Tolstoy, Pushkin and other Russian classics.1991 December 17, Vitali Vitaliev, “Lenin leaves behind an empty larder”, in The Age, 138th year, number 42,603, Melbourne, Vic., →ISSN...
  • UKRAINIAN FALL FESTIVAL, […] Includes […] a food court (eat-in or take-out) with varenyky, kapusta, kovbasa, holubsti, blintsi and baked goods; […]2006 September 27, “Guide to fall festivals”, in Courier News, Bridgewater, N.J., →ISSN, →OCLC, page E-5, column 1:
  • Whenever the family visited there was always borcht, lapshevnik, pirrahi, fresh garden salads, fruit from their trees and one of our favorite breakfasts, blintsi.2018 August 9, “Molly Bonderoff: July 22, 2018”, in Castlegar News, volume 15, number 32, Castlegar, B.C.: Black Press, →OCLC, page A16...

Forms of blintsi

alternative formblintsy

Origin of blintsi

From Russian блинцы́ (blincý), plural of блине́ц (blinéc).

Questions about blintsi

What does blintsi mean?
Blintsi means a type of flat pancakes made from very thin batter.
How do you use blintsi in a sentence?
They're so delicious and good to have once in awhile;^([sic]) also lapshevnik, lapsha, vareniki and blintsi.
What part of speech is blintsi?
Blintsi is a noun.

Words near blintsi in the dictionary

  1. Blinns
  2. blinny
  3. blins
  4. blintse
  5. blintses
  6. blintsi
  7. blintsy
  8. blintz
  9. blintze
  10. blintzes
  11. bliny

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