tsuican.
/ˈtsuːɪkə/ A Romanian plum brandy.
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1927 Sunday Express 26 June 17/5 Will you come into the house and have a talk over a glass of tuica?
1938 Times 1 Jan. 11/1 The improvement of the facilities for the making of ţsuica (plum brandy, which is a national drink).
1960 O. Manning Great Fortune i. 52 I make my own red wine, white wine, ţuică, and martini.
1965 A. Sichel Penguin Bk. Wines iii. 221 Various fruit cordials, such as plum brandy, are also exported from Rumania; there are two types, called Tzuica and Slibovitza.
1971 T. E. B. Clarke Wrong Turning xv. 105 She was drinking red wine with sodawater, he was having beer: there was laughter..at Jean's insistence in sticking to tuica.
1977 ‘A. Stuart’ Snap Judgement 51 She was choking—with emotion? With tuica? Both she and the room smelt strongly of plum brandy.
1981 B. de Breffny My First Naked Lady i. 29 Grandfather made me sip a Rumanian liqueur called Tsuica.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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