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单词 slivovitz
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slivovitzn.

Brit. /ˈslɪvəvɪts/, U.S. /ˈslɪvəˌvɪts/
Forms: Also sliwowitz; ‖ slivovic(e), slivovitza, sljivovica.
Etymology: < German slibowitz, < Bulgarian slivovitza , Croatian šljivovica plum brandy, < Old Church Slavonic sliva plum; compare sloe n.
A central and eastern European plum brandy.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > brandy > [noun] > brandy not from grapes > plum brandy
prune brandy1862
slivovitz1885
tsuica1927
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1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 692/2 Other important articles of commerce are wine, wool, cattle, timber, hides, honey, wax and ‘slivovitza’, an inferior spirit made from plums.
1938 C. L. Morgan Flashing Stream i. i. 72 They have a drink called Šljivovica. It's a kind of plum-brandy.
1950 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 326/1 Plums are grown as fresh fruit and for jam, though some are distilled into slivovice (plum brandy).
1973 S. B. Jackman Guns covered with Flowers vi. 98 They drank two small glasses of sljivovica.
β. 1897 B. Stoker Dracula i. 11 There is a flask of slivovitz..underneath the seat, if you should require it.1900 ‘Odysseus’ Turkey in Europe viii. 374 The plum~trees [of Northern Servia] that produce the national drink of slivovitz, or plum-brandy.1940 M. Healy Stay me with Flagons 273 Kirsch and Kirschwasser..never have appealed to me; and Slivovitz I have never drunk, I think.1951 F. Brown Murder can be Fun viii. 104 What are you drinking? Me, I like slivovitz.1960 A. E. Bender Dict. Nutrition & Food Technol. 114/2 Sliwowitz, plum brandy originating in Yugoslavia.1960 R. St. John Foreign Correspondent ix. 192 There was a young German in his compartment who had drunk too deeply of Bulgarian slivovitz.1976 New Yorker 22 Mar. 47/1 He sits by the kitchen window of his little flat,..drinking the slivovitz he smuggles into Sweden each September in carefully emptied beer bottles.γ. 1958 P. Kemp No Colours or Crest viii. 172 A flask of excellent Prizren slivovic.1961 E. Waugh Unconditional Surrender iii. ii. 226 Once, after a jack-pot, he was offered a glass of Slivovic.1971 Southerly 31 17 Here's to scotch, to bourbon, to slivovic, to uyzo.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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