eau de vie
Example Sentences
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“They would use real apple juice or clarified apple juice or they would use an eau de vie from Europe.”
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025
If any of you uncover some ancient recipe for pickles and eau de vie, something that balances the humors, perhaps, let me know.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2022
Taking the play in is like sipping a rarefied eau de vie, the kind that scalds as it cools.
From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2019
The French have an intoxicating liquour called eau de vie; this is distilled from the refuse of the grapes after the wine is made.—Ed.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John
Here are meat and drink united, Life, indeed, in this we see; Who'd exchange so rich a fluid For the baser eau de vie?
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 04, April 23, 1870 by Various
