borsh

== English == === Noun === borsh (uncountable) Alternative form of borscht. “Railway Grade”, page 165: The white lull which comes with the first snows of real winter, and this reunion of husbands and wives and families, brought a holiday feeling to the villages of Thunder Hill. […] Borsh, soup, “with other vegetables in it besides potatoes.” “Nakedness”, page 212: [T]he regal party sat down to eat a fine meal of borsh, pancakes with cream, melted butter, honey, and tea with lemon and sugar. “Royal Commission”, page 261: [A] fine vegetarian meal was served on a sparkling white tablecloth. Borsh soup, perashki, and watermelons grown almost from the very ground where the table and benches stood. “Revelations: to 1940”, page 426: BORSH SOUP, THE STEAM BATH, and pickled cucumbers now remained the only three things with which the Dukhobors were in unanimous accord. […] Pacifism in its negative form of antipathy toward soldiering, war and the killing of human beings, was almost as general among them as was their partiality for borsh, dills and Ruski banya.