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abricotine|æˈbrɪkəʊtiːn, -ɪn|
[a. Fr., f. abricot apricot + -ine4.]
1. (With capital initial.) A proprietary name for a variety of apricot brandy liqueur.
No longer proprietary in the U.S.
1906Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 11 Sept. 607/1 A. Garnier, Enghien-les-Bains, France... Abricotine... Cordials. 1921Trade Marks Jrnl. 8 June 1170 Abricotine..User claimed from 31st January, 1895. 410,417. A liqueur. Caroline Henriette Garnier trading as Veuve A. Garnier and..as P. Garnier,..Enghien-les-Bains. 1951Good Housek. Home Encycl. 339/1 The kernels and the fresh or dried fruit are used to flavour apricot brandy (or abricotine). 1980P. V. Price Dict. Wines & Spirits 12 Well-known brands are Marie Brizard's Apry, Garnier's Abricotine, but most liqueur establishments make an apricot liqueur.
2. An apricot plum. (So in Fr.) nonce-use.
1930E. Sitwell Coll. Poems 124 Shone..apricots so ripe their kernels seem Gemmed amethysts,—the rose abricotine, And one who wears a blond lace pelerine. |