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Gose

or go·se

[ goh-zuh, -suh ]

noun

  1. a sour wheat beer with a distinctive salty taste also typically characterized by coriander flavor and aroma.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Gose1

First recorded in 1990–95; from German, from Goslar, a town in Lower Saxony where the beer originated

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Example Sentences

Gose is athousand-year-old style of German malted wheat beer brewed with coriander and salt.

Dr. Gose was not yet four years of age when his parents crossed the plains, so that he was reared upon the western frontier.

Mrs. Gose belongs to the Congregational church, in the work of which she takes an active and helpful part.

Strī′gate, Strī′gose, having strig: streaked; Strig′ilose, minutely strigose.

Me play gose, sahib, but not to scare de good white mans—only de baud white mans.

By thys tale ye may se that the olde prouerbe ys trew, that it is as great pyte to se a woman wepe as a gose to go barefote.

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