Stolichnaya

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English

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Etymology

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A brand name, from Russian Столи́чная (Stolíčnaja).

Noun

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Stolichnaya (countable and uncountable, plural Stolichnayas)

  1. A brand of vodka made of wheat and rye grain.
    • 2021 May 7, Maureen Dowd, “Ewan McGregor: Dahling, He’s Halston!”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      When Ewan McGregor was but a wee lad in a sleepy town in Scotland in the ’70s, some 3,200 miles away in a Manhattan townhouse on East 63rd Street, Roy Halston Frowick was living on a diet of baked potatoes with beluga caviar, chilled Stolichnaya, rent boys and mounds of cocaine piled in Elsa Peretti silver ashtrays.

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