koumiss

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He had to go and try to cure himself in the Steppe by a course of koumiss, and did actually cure himself.

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  1. noun Variant of kumiss.

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  • On the 25th of May he married Olga Knipper, one of the leading actresses at the Art Theatre, and with her went off to the province of Ufa for the koumiss cure. —  Letters of Anton Chekhov
  • Horse milk is still drunk in Kazakhstan, usually fermented into an alcoholic drink known as koumiss. —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • The new evidence suggests that the koumiss tradition dates back to the earliest horse herders. —  Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Mare's milk is still drunk in Kazakhstan, a country in which horse traditions run deep, and is usually fermented into a slightly alcoholic drink called koumiss. —  Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
  • While it was known that koumiss had been produced for centuries, this study shows the practice dates back to the very earliest horse herders. —  Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
 

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