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Borscht Belt
noun
a group of resort hotels in the Catskill Mountains of the eastern US with a primarily Jewish clientele US
Alluding to the cold beet soup “borscht” because of the eastern European heritage of many of the Jewish guests.- — American Speech, December 1949
- It is hard to believe that anybody is unfamiliar with New York’s Borscht Belt. Books, movies, plays and TV skits have centered around this vacationland in Sullivan County, about 100 miles north of New York City. — San Francisco News Call-Bulletin, p. 6, 22 December 1962
- Damon Runyon described it [Grossinger’s] as Linday’s with trees. It has also been called the ancestral home of the bagel, the pride of the “Borscht Belt,” the Waldorf of the Catskills. — San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, p. 11 (Travel), 25 February 1973
- The Emcee was a slimy, bald exile from the Borscht Belt. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 313, 1990
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