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Kvass

noun
(written also quas and quass)
1.
Fermented beverage resembling beer but made from rye or barley.






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"Kvass" Quotes from Famous Books



... kvass or water! [Exit LUKA] What a way to reason! A man is in desperate need of his money, and she won't pay it because, you see, she is not disposed to attend to money matters!... That's real silly feminine logic. That's ...
— Plays by Chekhov, Second Series • Anton Chekhov

... dogs. In his wretched gown, in his absurd night-cap, and in slippers, sometimes with bare legs and even without trousers, he walks about the streets, stopping at the gates and little shops, and begging for a copper. In one place they will give him some kvass, in another some bread, in another a copper, so that he generally goes back to the ward feeling rich and well fed. Everything that he brings back Nikita takes from him for his own benefit. The soldier does this roughly, angrily turning the Jew's pockets ...
— The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov



Words linked to "Kvass" :   Russia, USSR, brewage, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Soviet Union, brew



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