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BRANDY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("brandy" is a kind of...):
booze; hard drink; hard liquor; John Barleycorn; liquor; spirits; strong drink (an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brandy"):
eau de vie (strong coarse brandy)
applejack (distilled from hard cider)
Calvados (dry apple brandy made in Normandy)
Armagnac (dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France)
Cognac (high quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France)
grappa (Italian brandy made from residue of grapes after pressing)
kirsch (from fermented juice of black morello cherries)
marc (made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing)
slivovitz (a colorless plum brandy popular in the Balkans)
Holonyms ("brandy" is a substance of...):
ratafee; ratafia (sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds)
pink lady (a cocktail made of gin and brandy with lemon juice and grenadine shaken with an egg white and ice)
stinger (a cocktail made of made of creme de menthe and brandy)
claret cup (a punch made of claret and brandy with lemon juice and sugar and sometimes sherry or curacao and fresh fruit)
Context examples:
I gave him a little brandy and left him collapsed in a chair, while I made a most careful examination of the room.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But, first, as I am rather shaken by the knocking about which I had in the dressing-room, I think that I shall help myself to a dash of your brandy, Colonel.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Now, the coxswain's hesitation seemed to be unnatural, and as for the notion of his preferring wine to brandy, I entirely disbelieved it.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Our visitor had gulped off the brandy and the colour had returned to his face.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He rubbed the brandy, as on another occasion, on her lips and gums and on her wrists and the palms of her hands.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“Heave him down by the fireside. Why should he have brandy, when many a Christian has to go without?”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With these words, Mrs. Crupp, affecting to be very careful of the brandy—which was all gone—thanked me with a majestic curtsey, and retired.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any friends, not even his own brother.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You remember that I asked whether whisky and brandy were in the cabin.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then he fell back into an armchair so limp and exhausted with his own emotions that we had to pour brandy down his throat to keep him from fainting.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
