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cognac
[ kohn-yak, kon-; French kaw-nyak ]
noun
- (often initial capital letter) the brandy distilled in and shipped from the legally delimited area surrounding the town of Cognac, in W central France.
- any French brandy.
- any good brandy.
Cognac
/ ˈkɒnjæk; kɔɲak /
noun
- a town in SW France: centre of the district famed for its brandy. Pop: 19 534 (1999)
- sometimes not capital a high-quality grape brandy
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From cognac to bourbon, rye to añejo tequila, many of our beloved spirits spend years aging in wooden casks.
The cognac, an effort by the Georgian vintners to replicate the traditional French liquor, is valued at $1400 for a single bottle.
He also smokes copious amounts of weed mooched off his friends and makes miracles by turning water into cognac.
He replied, “Oh, I had six bottles of wine and three bottles of cognac.”
Bandar bin Sultan smoked fine cigars and drank finer Cognac.
Lachaume, the painter, and I were chatting at one of its little tables, he over an absinthe and I over a coffee and cognac.
He tried the captain, but that worthy seaman was sleeping like a hog, and the cognac was running in slavers from his mouth.
As every cup was well flavored with cognac, it made all their faces red, and confused their ideas still more.
The Roman Catholics, advancing, laid siege to Cognac, confident of easy success.
I suggested that it was a very trying trip, and asked her if she would allow me to offer her some of my cognac.
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