blini

[blin-ee, blee-nee] /ˈblɪn i, ˈbli ni/

plural noun, singular blin. Russian Cookery.

pancakes made with yeast and either white or buckwheat flour and traditionally served during Shrovetide with caviar and sour cream.

Also, blinis, bliny.

Origin

< Russian bliný, plural of blin blin

Examples from the web for blini

Dream up a cross between cornpone and blini and you've got a close approximation.
It was a blini vein with no surface indications and it will probably make a paying mine.
There were buckwheat and potato blini with smoked brook trout, one of the best appetizers.
It arrives with a covered pot of blini, a dish of sour cream, a pitcher of butter and its own private waiter.

British Dictionary definitions for blini

/ˈblɪnɪ/

plural noun

Russian pancakes made of buckwheat flour and yeast

Word Origin

C19: from Russian: plural of blin, from Old Russian mlinǔ, related to Russian molot' to grind