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bev⋅er⋅age

[bev-er-ij, bev-rij]
–noun
any potable liquid, esp. one other than water, as tea, coffee, beer, or milk: The price of the meal includes a beverage.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME < AF beverage, bevarage, equiv. to be(i)vre to drink + -age -age
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bev·er·age   (běv'ər-ĭj, běv'rĭj)   
n.  Any one of various liquids for drinking, usually excluding water.

[Middle English, from Old French bevrage, from beivre, to drink, from Latin bibere; see pō(i)- in Indo-European roots.]
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beverage 
1237, from Anglo-Fr. beverage, from O.Fr. bevre "to drink" (from L. bibere "to imbibe;" see imbibe) + -age, suffix forming mass or abstract nouns.
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