Meanings
- alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of golabki.
Instead of the stock, rye borsch (żur) may be used over the gołąbki.
1979, Maria Lemnis, Henryk Vitry [double pen name; Tadeusz Żakiej], Old Polish Traditions in the Kitchen and at the Table, Warsaw: Interpress Publishers, →ISBN, page 2834 more examples
The food is good and inexpensive, and includes daily specials like kiełbasa, pierogi, and gołąbki.
1979, Paul Wrobel, Our Way: Family, Parish, and Neighborhood in a Polish-American Community, Notre Dame, Ind.; London: University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN, page 48What would be a typical Polish meal? Around these parts Polish people say it is gołąbki, pierogi and kiełbasa.
1991, Joseph Alecks, quotee, Polish Digest, page 23, column 3Two blocks south of the Piccolo, the Cechowa at ul Jagiellońska 4 is a simple, inexpensive restaurant (closed on Sunday) which has a variety of typically Polish dishes including pierogi and gołąbki.
1993, Krzysztof Dydynski, Poland: A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, page 201, column 1The food was a mixture of city chicken, hot dogs, ravioli, and gołąbki (or holubtsi, depending on who was doing the talking).
1999, Ronald Grigor Suny, Michael D. Kennedy, editors, Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 165
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