Stolichnaya

English

Etymology

A brand name, from Russian Столи́чная (Stolíčnaja).

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• Stoli/Stolly (informal)