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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Traditional East Slavic bread shaped like a padlock or various kinds of wheels. Other Slavic nations have similar but not identical types of pastry, e.g. Czech or Slovak koláč/koláč, Polish kołacz, Bulgarian колач (kolač), Serbo-Croatian колач/kolač, etc..
[H]e used to roam about the town with his hands in his pockets, doing nothing, and casting looks at the stalls of the old women who sold kalachs which made them tremble.
Her ladyship was reduced to the pitiable choice of yesterday’s croissants or one of the nine different kinds of rolls, milk breads, sweet breads, scones, pancakes, vatrushki, kalachi, ponchiki, rogaliki and bulochki whose delicious, new-baked smell was wafting all over the house.
He came back several times with small loaves of various shapes, kalachs, bubliks, pots of jam, honey and molasses, and cold sausage; […]
We asked the canteen to lend us a knife for a minute, I cut up all the kalachs and the babkas into thirty-three parts.
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Kalach means Traditional East Slavic bread shaped like a padlock or various kinds of wheels. Other Slavic nations have similar but not identical types of pastry, e.g. Czech or Slovak koláč/koláč, Polish kołacz, Bulgarian колач (kolač), Serbo-Croatian колач/kolač, etc..
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[H]e used to roam about the town with his hands in his pockets, doing nothing, and casting looks at the stalls of the old women who sold kalachs which made them tremble.
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