| 单词 | wormwood wine |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswormwood wine wormwood wine n. a cordial prepared (like absinthe or vermouth) from wormwood; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > cordial > [noun] > kinds of water of milk1542 wormwood wine1565 milk water1602 wormwood water1612 mint water1639 persico1709 saffron cordial1728 peppermint water1756 pimento water1760 mint tea1764 peppermintc1770 rum shrub1788 ginger brandy1838 peppermint cordial1847 cloves1853 currant-shrub1856 shrub1861 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Absynthites..wormewoodde wyne. 1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. 150 Artificiall stuffe, as ypocras and wormewood wine. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 81 In upper Germany the first draught commonly is of wormewood wine. 1692 in Earthquake at Lima (1748) App. 328 This Gentleman..engaged me to take a Glass of Wormwood Wine with him, as a Whet before Dinner. 1806 J. Pinkerton Recoll. Paris II. xv. 208 A decanter of Jamaica rum, Wormwood wine, or that of Vermouth. 1844 J. C. Mangan Love & Madness in Poems (1903) 323 Why must Medjnims evermore Drink their tears as wormwood wine? < as lemmas |
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