Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sauer-kraut .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
sourkrout .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic
sauerkraut
Etymologies
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Examples
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CHILD: And think a crout (ph) of tomato in one ...
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But the trouble with sour crout is that sailors loathe it and have to be flogged to eat it.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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There is a pickled cabbage called ‘sour crout’ my cousin James imports from Bremen for some of the Bristol sea captains because it is cheaper than extract of malt, which is a very good antiscorbutic.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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But the trouble with sour crout is that sailors loathe it and have to be flogged to eat it.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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There is a pickled cabbage called ‘sour crout’ my cousin James imports from Bremen for some of the Bristol sea captains because it is cheaper than extract of malt, which is a very good antiscorbutic.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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He thereupon opened the door, received and entertained me with all the hospitality his poverty would admit of; regaled me with sour crout and some new laid eggs, the only provision he had, and clean straw with a kind of rug for a bed, he having no other for himself and wife.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Sarah J. Richardson
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[Footnote 37: French pronunciation of sour-crout.] "I suppose you entertain a good many wishes in regard to your birthday?" asked the king, putting more cabbage on his own plate.
Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan
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Sour-crout was much more to his taste as a preventive of scurvy, and in 1777, at the request of
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Germany, where the idea came from, and may it be stuffed into a barrel of sour-crout, not to come out till it is thoroughly rotted.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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