Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
kumiss .
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Examples
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Later in older children, raw beef, eggs, boiled milk, kumyss, or matzoon and gruels may be given.
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-- Sour milk, buttermilk, sour cream, kumyss, matzoon, zoolac, and similar products shall not be made from any milk of a less grade than that designated for Grade B and shall be pasteurized before being put through the process of souring.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables
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We have known patients to take kindly to an exclusive diet of kumyss, or matzoon, or predigested foods, with stale toast or zwieback, to which can be added stewed fruits.
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Later kumyss or matzoon can be tried, and finally thin gruels made with milk.
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Malted milk, kumyss, or matzoon may be given in place of milk.
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It looks like milky water, and has quite an agreeable taste, reminding one of kumyss.
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I had reason to apprehend that they would express to me their esteem and affection more Bashkirico; but in kumyss-drinking, the ordinary occupation of these people when they have nothing to do, I had to indulge to a most inordinate extent.
Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880
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At last you perceive -- most pleasant sight of all -- a group of haystack-shaped tents in the distance; and you hurry on to enjoy the grateful shade, and quench your thirst with "deep, deep draughts" of refreshing kumyss.
Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880
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This beverage, as I have already explained, is mare's milk fermented; but what here passed under the name was very different from the kumyss I had tasted in the establissements of Samara.
Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880
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What interested me more than the lions of the town or the suburban kumyss establishments were the offices of the local administration, where I found in the archives much statistical and other information of the kind I was in search of, regarding the economic condition of the province generally, and of the emancipated peasantry in particular.
Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880
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