: a thin often buckwheat pancake usually filled (as with sour cream) and folded
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For an answer, there was only the sound of my blin cooking on the griddle, and the rise and fall of spoons.
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Talia Lavin, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2017
The Red Star blin offers a satisfying burst of salty salmon roe, draped in hot, lacy pastry and delivered in minutes.
—Talia Lavin, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2017
The blin is so ubiquitous in Russia that the word is also used as a mild expletive: a polite Russian might mutter it after stubbing her toe, in place of the curse word blyad.
—Talia Lavin, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2017
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Talia Lavin, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2017
The Red Star blin offers a satisfying burst of salty salmon roe, draped in hot, lacy pastry and delivered in minutes.
—Talia Lavin, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2017
The blin is so ubiquitous in Russia that the word is also used as a mild expletive: a polite Russian might mutter it after stubbing her toe, in place of the curse word blyad.
—Talia Lavin, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2017
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“Blin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blin. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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