| 单词 | rhubarb wine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrhubarb wine rhubarb wine n. †(a) a medicinal tincture of rhubarb rootstock in wine (obsolete); (b) wine made with rhubarb leaf-stalks. ΚΠ 1769 J. Ball New Compend. Dispensatory 223 Take six ounces of rhubarb wine; steel wine, one ounce; tincture of black hellebore, and syrup of saffron, each half an ounce. 1788 T. Healde tr. New Pharmacopoeia Index 337 Rhubarb-Wine. 1835 Brit. Cycl. Arts & Sci. II. 510/1 To prepare rhubarb wine, take of rhubarb, sliced, two ounces [etc.]. 1897 Daily News 31 Aug. 6/3 He had been a staunch teetotaler for five or six years but ‘broke loose’ on Saturday by drinking an enormous quantity of rhubarb wine, with which he became mad drunk. 1931 Bull. School Oriental Stud. 6 512 That the juice pressed from the wild rhubarb can be turned into wine by means of fermentation is adequately proved by the rhubarb wine. 1997 Farmers Guardian 19 Sept. 19/3 Liqueur and wine classes showed an increase with such tempters as blackberry rum liqueur, citrus liqueur and rhubarb wine. < as lemmas |
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