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or borsch
: a soup made primarily of beets and served hot or cold often with sour cream
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Or when my older brother took me to eat borscht at his favorite college haunt near NYU, which was packed with cosmopolitan students all ordering the same thing.
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Daria Lavelle, People.com, 23 May 2025
This book, originally published in 1903 and reprinted as recently as 2006, was a guidepost for many Jewish cooks through the 20th century, with chapters on household rules, outlines of menus, and recipes for everything from borscht to chicken chop suey.
—Devra Ferst, Saveur, 7 May 2025
The living room is the color of borscht with a dollop of cream.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 8 Apr. 2025
Blaming the left for all things seen as anti-capitalist is as American as apple borscht.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
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Daria Lavelle, People.com, 23 May 2025
This book, originally published in 1903 and reprinted as recently as 2006, was a guidepost for many Jewish cooks through the 20th century, with chapters on household rules, outlines of menus, and recipes for everything from borscht to chicken chop suey.
—Devra Ferst, Saveur, 7 May 2025
The living room is the color of borscht with a dollop of cream.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 8 Apr. 2025
Blaming the left for all things seen as anti-capitalist is as American as apple borscht.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for borscht
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“Borscht.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/borscht. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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from Yiddish borsht and Ukrainian and Russian borshch "beet soup"
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