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: a usually sweetened alcoholic liquor (such as brandy) flavored with fruit, spices, nuts, herbs, or seeds
Examples of liqueur in a Sentence
a bottle of orange liqueur
Recent Examples on the Web
It's flavored with Irish cream liqueur, which deepens the flavor of the ultra-creamy cheesecake.
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Wini Moranville, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 May 2024
One nice touch was The Irene Dalis, a cocktail made with vodka, grapefruit juice, elderflower liqueur and a rosemary garnish.
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Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
In the 2018 Cocktail Codex, the Death and Co. bartenders reduce the liqueur even further to a 5-1 ratio of vermouth to Bénédictine, and then point to the absinthe as bitters and call it an Old Fashioned variation.
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Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 May 2024
As a symbolic sweetener for his insistence, the French president’s gift offerings to Xi included an Armagnac from France’s southwest, one of the liqueurs at risk of the damaging Chinese sanctions.
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Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
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“Liqueur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liqueur. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
liqueur
noun
li·queur
li-ˈkər
-ˈk(y)u̇(ə)r
: a flavored and usually sweetened alcoholic beverage
Medical Definition
liqueur
noun
li·queur
li-ˈkər
-ˈk(y)u̇(ə)r
: a usually sweetened alcoholic beverage variously flavored (as with fruit or aromatics)
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