brandy
IPA: brˈændi
noun
- (uncountable) An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.
- (countable) Any variety of brandy.
- (countable) A glass of brandy.
- A female given name from English derived from brandy, an alcoholic liquor. Mostly seen in American usage during the 1970s and 1980s.
verb
- (transitive) To preserve, flavour, or mix with brandy.
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Examples of "brandy" in Sentences
- Brandy is a feminine given name.
- Brandy is often used as an ingredient.
- Brandy was featured on the album as well.
- Brandy Alexander is a sweet brandy based cocktail.
- Fruite wine is not wine and fruite brandy is not brandy.
- He was also the only brandy distiller in Western Australia.
- Stir in brandy and fruit mixture, as well as chopped pecans.
- The fruit - and indeed the cake itself - is traditionally soaked in brandy or some kind of other liquor.
- I'll raise MINE when my black current brandy is ready (it's steeping in a jug in the pantry as I write) in September!
- It conjures up other images we have of him as stout, natty, in tweed suit, cambric shirt and ankle boots, a human brandy snifter.
- You can get beef and mutton there, and damper, and tea no doubt, and what they call brandy, as long as you've got the money to pay for it.
- I also have read of "brandy paper", where a small round of parchment paper is dipped in brandy to cover and help preserve the contents of the jar.
- Drank half a bottle of some sort of spirits -- probably spirits of wine; for what they call brandy, rum, &c. &c. here is nothing but spirits of wine, coloured accordingly.
- I suggest a Sanctuary drinking game wherein every time Magnus makes a hackneyed historical or literary reference, you take five sips of fine 100 year old brandy from a large snifter.
- Trolls I suggest you go with something else to mellow you out: maybe a nice drink that consists of Earl Grey iced tea, some Germain-Robin brandy, some Bärenjäger (which is a honey liqueur), and lemon.
- It seems to have been liberated from the pharmacy and drunk for pleasure in the 15th century, when the terms Bernewyn and brannten Wein, ancestors of our word brandy that meant “burning” or “burnt” wine, appear in German laws about public drunkenness.
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