brandy
a spirit distilled from wine or from the fermented juice of grapes or of apples, peaches, plums, etc.
to mix, flavor, or preserve with brandy.
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How to use brandy in a sentence
Dust-covered prospectors from North America and Europe quaffed expensive brandy in Ulaanbaatar’s plush nightclubs.
'We Face Very Tough Challenges.' How Mongolia Typifies the Problems Posed to Small Countries by China's Rise | Charlie Campbell / Shanghai | April 14, 2021 | TimeThis translates to “with wine,” but all manner of spirits, such as rum and brandy, are used.
Learn to make cajeta, a Mexican confection with multilayered sweetness and history | Adriana Velez | April 12, 2021 | Washington PostYou can even try an eau de vie, an unaged brandy made with the same fruit as the liqueur.
Boozy hot chocolate recaptures the magic of a childhood snow day with a grown-up twist | M. Carrie Allan | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostIf you booze you lose… heatAt some point in your lifetime of watching cartoons, you’ve probably seen a Saint Bernard dog with a little cask of brandy hanging under his neck.
Menus will feature new cocktails such as the Fruitcake Flip—brandy, Jamaican overproof rum, amaretto, and fruitcake—and the On Dasher, made from bourbon, mezcal, sweet vermouth, and spiced hibiscus.
Can Christmas-themed Miracle bars help save America’s devastated bar industry? | Rachel Schallom | October 24, 2020 | Fortune
Now the gut was fueled not by Romanée-Conti and Château d'Yquem but by brandy--and a hell of a lot of it.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTClaret for boys, port for men, and brandy for heroes, according to Dr. Johnson, and Hitch went for the heroic.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut while McCartney was sipping a brandy, Lennon snuck up behind the future Sir Paul and clocked him on the back of the head.
So as they spy on us, we have a civic duty to return the favor - just like brandy did with her smartphone.
I gave him some brandy from my medicinal store, which he drank with a grimace.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show | Robert W. Chambers | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe started a guerilla campaign against the obsession with the aid of the brandy bottle.
Uncanny Tales | VariousIn this case, never leave home without a straw-covered bottle of brandy, and another of camphor, in your carpet-bag.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyYou can never know, when you place wine or brandy before your guests, whom you may be tempting to utter ruin.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyPerhaps it was in the bottle of brandy that the peril lay; perhaps—but why speculate further!
The Staircase At The Hearts Delight | Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs)Vile aniseed brandy—liquid fire—was sold cheap, and many a man who began the day cool and sober ended it as a raving madman.
The Chequers | James Runciman
British Dictionary definitions for brandy
/ (ˈbrændɪ) /
an alcoholic drink consisting of spirit distilled from grape wine
a distillation of wines made from other fruits: plum brandy
Origin of brandy
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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