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pisco
[ pis-koh, pee-skoh; Spanish pee-skaw ]
noun
- a brandy made in the district near Pisco, a seaport in Peru.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pisco1
1840–50, Americanism; < Spanish
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Example Sentences
The common brandy is called Aguardiente de Pisco, because it is shipped at that port.
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Some very considerable sugar plantations, and several villages, lie between Cañete and Pisco.
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Pisco is merely the key to the large interior town of Yca, which is fourteen leagues distant.
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The steamer conveyed me in eighteen hours from Callao to Pisco, where I hired horses and a guide.
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Guano is found upon the coasts of Peru, in the islands of Chinche, near Pisco, and several other places more to the south.
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