Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A light pancake served with melted butter, sour cream, and other garnishes such as caviar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Russian pancakes of buckwheat flour and yeast, sometimes made from white flour; they are usually served folded over, with caviar and sour cream on the inside; -- properly, it is a plural word (from the Russian plural of blin) but in America, often used as singular; thus the common plural blinis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
pancake , ofRussian origin, made frombuckwheat flour ; traditionally served with meltedbutter ,sour cream andcaviar orsmoked salmon
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Buckwheat flour is most often a mixture of ground buckwheat seeds and white flour and is traditionally used in yeast-raised buckwheat pancakes called blini.
Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987
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Buckwheat flour is most often a mixture of ground buckwheat seeds and white flour and is traditionally used in yeast-raised buckwheat pancakes called blini.
Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987
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Buckwheat flour is most often a mixture of ground buckwheat seeds and white flour and is traditionally used in yeast-raised buckwheat pancakes called blini.
Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987
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Buckwheat flour is most often a mixture of ground buckwheat seeds and white flour and is traditionally used in yeast-raised buckwheat pancakes called blini.
Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987
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Buckwheat flour is most often a mixture of ground buckwheat seeds and white flour and is traditionally used in yeast-raised buckwheat pancakes called blini.
Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987
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In Russia it’s used to make the small pancakes called blini; and whole groats are toasted to make the nutty-tasting porridge kasha.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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In Russia it’s used to make the small pancakes called blini; and whole groats are toasted to make the nutty-tasting porridge kasha.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The "blini," as they're known in Russian, aren't exactly pancakes.
ABC News: ABCNews 2010
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Maslenitsa is the traditional celebration to welcome the Russian spring and revellers often mark the occasion by feasting on 'blini' pancakes before Lent.
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The music was probably called something like 'trance" or -ambient, " and a chalkboard menu offered Huevos Rancheros " listed as -a Tex-Mex all-day breakfast treat" " and Snack Attacks such as blini and baba ghanoush.
Resurrection Men Rankin, Ian, 1960- 2002
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