concept
Kvass
kvass
A mildly fermented Russian beverage made from rye bread or grain, the ordinary drink of the peasant table -- called for at supper as an unremarkable corrective to Marya's tears.
Reading notes
- The Lady of the Manor §47 kvass
A mildly fermented Russian drink made from rye bread or grain, the ordinary peasant table beverage -- called for here as a corrective to Marya's tears, a mundane detail against the scene's cruelty.
- My Life: A Provincial's Story §241 kvass
Тюря с квасом, bread crumbled into kvass (a mildly fermented grain beverage), is proverbially the plainest peasant fare; the engineer's daughter cites her father's occasional taste for it as evidence, half-serious, that wealth has not entirely spoiled him.
- He and She §11 kvass
A mildly fermented Russian beverage made from rye bread or grain; here used figuratively -- the husband's blotched, sodden face looks 'as if steeped in kvass.'