Definition of "bortsch" []

• Alternative spelling of borscht. (noun)

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• "I am encouraged to hold my ground because you could have asked a Russian 20 days ago what he knew about Russia and the next morning his answer would have been very cold bortsch indeed."
• "Russian music tastes of _kascha_ and _bortsch_ and vodka."
• "Sylvia Strubble, who spoke rather as one who knew every individual member of the Russian imperial family; as a matter of fact, she knew a newspaper correspondent, a young man who ate _bortsch_ with the air of having invented it."