Meaning of страва | Babel Free

Definitions

1. food (any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life)
   dated, uncountable
2. dish (specific type of prepared food)
3. course (stage of a meal)

Equivalents

Examples

“This was game indeed to us, but this was no food; and I was very sorry to lose three charges of powder and shot upon a creature that was good for nothing to us.”

It was naturally pleasant to defeat such a beast, but its meat had no use as food, and I was very sorry to waste three charges of powder on such a useless game.

“Hendon reserved the dainties for the king; without them his majesty might not have survived, for he was not able to eat the coarse and wretched food provided by the jailer.”

“The entrance of the waiters with new dishes caused the Major to be slyer yet, but in a more serious vein.”

“During the first course or two, the Major was usually grave; for the Native, in obedience to general orders, secretly issued, collected every sauce and cruet round him, and gave him a great deal to do, in taking out the stoppers, and mixing up the contents in his plate.”

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