boublik

plural boubliks · plural boubliki

1. alternativeAlternative form of bublik.

   Tea and boubliks were served.

   1978, Sergei Prokofiev, Materials, Articles, Interviews, Progress Publishers, page 190

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   Soviet machines used in making Russian national food, such as delicious patties stuffed with meat, fruit or cottage cheese, pelmeni, dumplings, boubliks and barankas, are popular in many countries.

   1971, Foreign Trade, U.S.S.R. Ministry of Foreign Trade, page 42, column 1

   She told us sorrowfully that she was unable to do what everybody did—draw a ration of boubliks, for example, exchange them for bread and a little cash, then barter the bread for something else and buy a handful of rice with the cash.

   1974, Nadezhda Mandelstam, translated by Max Hayward, Hope Abandoned, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →ISBN, page 354

   4) the orderlies ran into the station to get boiling water and boubliki, and farther away, a wheel crawled along the main track. […] They are silent because their signal flags for passing are the same, because they supply both the whites and the reds, because they boil water for both one and the other when they have to. Who the hell knows why . . . It’s probably also because of the women selling melons and boubliki at the stations. The women sell both melons and boubliki, both for the reds and for the whites.

   1978, Nikolai Nikitin, translated by Victor Peppard, Night & Other Stories, Strathcona Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 54

   Huge samovars are kept on the boil and there are boubliks and barankas (thick, ring-shaped rolls).

   1981, Cynthia Carlile, transl., Suzdal, Progress Publishers, page 115

   Honey-cakes, boubliks, rich cheesecakes, pies and pastries, fruit preserves and jams could be served with the tea.

   1985 November 5, L. Markova, “Restaurants Without Alcohol: Inventive Measures”, in USSR Report: Political and Sociological Affairs (JPRS-UPS-85-078), Foreign Broadcast Information Service, page 112