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Definition of Kvass

1. Noun. Fermented beverage resembling beer but made from rye or barley.

Definition of Kvass

1. Noun. A type of traditional fermented Russian beverage with little or no alcohol, made from bread, often flavored with fruit. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Kvass

1. a Russian beer [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kvass

Literary usage of Kvass

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Excursions in the Interior of Russia: Including Sketches of the Character by Robert Bremner (1840)
"The kvass is the thinnest, sourest, queerest kind of stuff ever concocted; yet the Russian could not live without it. It is patronized by all ranks and all ..."

2. Across Russia: From the Baltic to the Danube by Charles Augustus Stoddard (1891)
"Hence, on large estates, there is a special servant called the kvass- brewer, who devotes all his mind and some of his time to this manufacture. ..."

3. Beverages, Past and Present: An Historical Sketch of Their Production by Edward Randolph Emerson (1908)
"In Barrow's Excursions to the North of Europe there is an account of how the keepers of kvass shops proceeded to obtain customers when he was there. ..."

4. Beverages, Past and Present: An Historical Sketch of Their Production by Edward Randolph Emerson (1908)
"In Barrow's Excursions to the North of Europe there is an account of how the keepers of kvass shops proceeded to obtain customers when he was there. ..."

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