piquetten.
/pɪˈkɛt/, U.S. /piˈkɛt/ Originally and chiefly in France: a type of sour alcoholic drink; esp. (in later use) wine made from the second pressing of the marc.
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1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xxviii. 486 There is..made with this sort of apples [sc. crab apples] a kinde of drinke, called of the Picardines, Piquette, and this they vse in steed of Wine.]
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. il. 541 Drinke made of Sloes... Before a moneth be at an end this water..doth represent the colour and taste of a sharpe..wilde wine..: This drinke is called Piquette.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xx. 249/2 Piquet, wine from the Huske of Grapes and water.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Picquette, (Fr.) a tart sort of Wine us'd in some Parts of France, by the meaner Sort of People.
1772 L. de Saint Pierre Art of planting & cultivating Vine 165 This liquor or Piquette is to be drank [sic] in the Winter following; for were it to be kept till next Summer, it would grow sour.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Piquette, sour acid wine;..made..by pouring water on the husks of grapes.
1953 E. Hyams Vineyards in Eng. 217 Piquette can also be made in the same way from the already fermented remains of the black grapes.
1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food ix. 267 Between vintage and the beginning of winter, wine was replaced by the sort of thin drink later called piquette in France: a fermented decoction of the new must from the crushed grapes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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