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raki|rəˈkiː, ˈrækiː|
Forms: 7 racckee, 8 rakia, 8–9 rakie, 9 rackee, ra(k)kee, 7– raki.
[a. Turkish rāqī (whence also mod.Gr. ῥακή, ῥακί) brandy, spirits.]
Orig., an aromatic liquor made from grain-spirit, or from grape-juice, used in Greece and the Levant. Now also used of a liquor made from other ingredients (see quot. 1959) in various countries of eastern Europe and the Middle East; a drink of glass of this.
1675H. Teonge Diary (1825) 96 [We] drinke to our friends in England in racckee at night. 1775R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor lxxv. 255 Not far from us were booths of the Turcomans... Some of them joined us, and one or two wanted rakí or brandy. 1777Ann. Reg. ii. 47 They distil from the fruits of trees..a sort of brandy, called rakie. 1835Marryat Pacha i, Sherbet I cannot drink, rakee I must not. 1845E. Warburton Crescent & Cross I. xxvi. 295 Their dram is distilled from rice, and called Raki. 1873Tristram Moab x. 192 The only levy on our stores had been four bottles of raki. 1919E. H. Jones Road to En-Dor iii. 34, I..poured myself out a tot of Raki from Alec's bottle. 1933‘G. Orwell’ Down & out in London & Paris xvi. 122 Raki, the Arab drink, was very cheap. 1941‘R. West’ Black Lamb (1942) I. 410 Raki, the colourless brandy loved by Slavs. 1956R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond xii. 125 We had supper at the khan, and sat on there smoking and sipping raki..while Turks played tric⁓trac at little tables beneath the trees. 1959W. James Word-bk. Wine 154 Raki, a fairly general name for spirits in Balkan countries; it may be made from wine, grain, molasses, potatoes, plums, and so on; in Turkey it is a spirit resembling Pernod, which goes milky when diluted. 1969J. W. Mavor Voyage to Atlantis ix. 206 The old woman with two eye-teeth brought us raki or tsipuro, a 40-proof sort of grappa. 1980M. Bar-Zohar Deadly Document ix. 158 He sat down and ordered a raki. |