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1852 W. R. Gingell tr. H. Pi-Hsiang Ceremonial Usages Chinese 96 The Chang jin prepared the Keu chang, black millet wine, and invoked the descent of the gods.]

1885 W. E. Griffis Corea without & Within xx. 233 The guests were treated to the following: Boiled pork with rice-wine, macaroni soup, chicken with millet-wine, boiled eggs, pastry, flour, sesame and honey pudding.

1892 Fortn. Rev. 51 192 We made ourselves insufferably thirsty, so that a good drink of Kaffir beer, or, as the Portuguese call it, ‘millet wine’, was highly acceptable.

1924 J. Tharaud & J. Tharaud Long Walk Samba Diouf i. vi. 52 ‘I believe that in the country of the Niominkas you drink indifferently palm wine and millet wine?’ ‘Palm wine is inexhaustible with us,’ replied Samba proudly, ‘and millet wine is not dried up.’

1994 Anthropol. Today 10 3/1 (caption) A wooden container and cup for millet wine offered to ancestors.

2013 D. Sterk tr. Wu Ming-Yi Man with Compound Eyes (2014) vi. 61 The only thing for the tourists to buy was millet wine or plum wine in tall coloured bottles and cardboard containers.

2015 G. Maynard Yolla 7 The elder village men solemnly raised wine cups containing millet wine, chanted, and, using their carved ikupasuy ceremonial prayer sticks, offered drops of wine to the spirit of the bear and to the gods.