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Definition of borscht belt words

noun borscht belt (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment. 1

before 1935

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First recorded in 1935-40; so called, facetiously, from the quantities of borscht consumed there

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