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Definition of Shchi
1. cabbage soup [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shchi
Literary usage of Shchi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Westward to the Far East: A Guide to the Principal Cities of China and Japan by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (1892)
"Seven, shchi. Eight, hachi. Nine, ku. Ten,jiu. NUMBERS. Eleven, jiu ichi. Twelve,
jiu ni. ... July, shchi gatsu. August, hachi gatsu. September, ku gatsu. ..."
2. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1865)
"... of shchi (cabbage-soup) sends up its perpetual incense, and the samovar of
cheap tea is never empty. Here, although important interests are represented, ..."
3. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"The funeral feast is served in Russia, with its table for the beggars, laden with
fish-pasties and bowls of shchi and jugs of kvas, its more delicate dinner ..."
4. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1874)
"The funeral feast is served in Russia, with its table for the beggars, laden with
fish-pasties and bowls of shchi and jugs of kvas, its more delicate dinner ..."
5. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1903)
"... laden with fish pasties and bowls of shchi and jugs of kvas, its more delicate
dinner for friends and priests, its incense and chants of 'everlasting ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1875)
"... so loved that 1 To get shchi, folks wed ;' and he has kasha, or stewed grain,
to which alludes the rustic's simple pedigree : ' Bread is our father, ..."
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