单词 | cachaça |
释义 | cachaçan. A type of Brazilian spirit, similar to white rum, made from pure sugar-cane juice rather than molasses. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > other distilled liquor > [noun] > liquor from sugar molass1562 punch1657 molasses spirit1731 sugar-spirit1731 tafia1763 cachaça1856 caña1881 1856 D. P. Kidder & J. C. Fletcher Brazil & Brazilians vii. 126 Often Congo or Mozambique becomes eloquent under the effects of cachaça. 1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil I. xx. 189 Here men drink their Cachaça heroically; the effect is ‘liver’, dropsy, and death. 1920 Inland S. Amer. Sept. 142 The Indians had given up drinking ‘cachaça’, dancing, having great feasts, and fighting. 1992 Where Dec. 22/1 The Brazilian aperitif caldinho (black bean juice with cachaca). 2004 Observer 18 Apr. (Food Monthly Suppl.) 33/2 A succession of batidas, fruit juices whisked up with a shot of condensed milk, and spiked with cachaça. 2016 National Geogr. Traveller Sept. 89/2 Made from distilled sugarcane juice cachaça is the alcoholic base of Brazil's favourite cocktail: the caipirinha. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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