Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of powidl.
Povidlo and marmalade are also products preserved by a high sugar content.
1968, E[vgeniĭ] P[etrovich] Shirokov, Practical Course in Storage and Processing of Fruit and Vegetables (Textbooks and Teaching Aids for Agricultural Colleges), Jerusalem: Published for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., by the Israel Program for Scientific Translations, page 1492 more examples
Cut in squares and fill with favorite filling, such as nuts, poppyseed or povidlo.
1952, Mary Yasso, “Kiffles”, in The First Catholic Slovak Ladies Union, editor, The Anniversary Slovak-American Cook Book, twelfth printing, Chicago, Ill.: Tylka Bros. Press, Inc., page 76Irina is sitting at her kitchen table with ink on her face, two pencils behind her ear and another in her hand, and with the pages of her life of Galia Molokhovina spread out in front of her between the cherry povidlo and the bubliki.
1993, Ann Oakley, “Looking Back”, in Scenes Originating in the Garden of Eden, London: Flamingo, HarperCollinsPublishers, published 1994, →ISBN, pages 262–263
Origin
- Russianпови́дло
- Englishpovidlo
From Russian пови́дло (povídlo).
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