French vermouth

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• French vermouth — noun dry pale amber variety • Syn: ↑dry vermouth • Hypernyms: ↑vermouth …   Useful english dictionary

• Vermouth cocktail — Vermouth is a fortified wine flavored with aromatic herbs and spices and is used in many cocktails. In a cocktail, it serves as a moderating agent to reduce the percentage of alcohol by volume in the drink and provide an herbal flavor. In his… …   Wikipedia

• Vermouth — A bottle of Noilly Prat dry vermouth Vermouth (UK: /ˈvɜrməθ/;[1] US: /vərˈmuːθ/) is a fortified wine flavored with various dry ingredients. The modern …   Wikipedia

• French — adj. & n. adj. 1 of or relating to France or its people or language. 2 having the characteristics attributed to the French people. n. 1 the language of France, also used in Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, and elsewhere. 2 (the French) (pl.) the… …   Useful english dictionary

• vermouth cassis — noun : a mixed drink consisting of French vermouth, crème de cassis, and carbonated water * * * a mixed drink made with dry vermouth, crème de cassis, soda or mineral water, and cracked ice. [ F; see VERMOUTH, CRÈME DE CASSIS] …   Useful english dictionary

• French — French1 [french] n. [ME Frensh < OE Frencisc < Franca, a FRANK2] 1. the Romance language spoken chiefly in France, French Canada, and certain parts of Belgium, Switzerland, and Africa 2. [often f ] Brit. dry vermouth adj. of France or its… …   English World dictionary

• vermouth — ► NOUN ▪ a red or white wine flavoured with aromatic herbs. ORIGIN French vermout, from German Wermut wormwood …   English terms dictionary

• vermouth — /veuhr moohth /, n. an aromatized white wine in which herbs, roots, barks, bitters, and other flavorings have been steeped. [1800 10; < F (now vermout) < G Wermuth (now Wermut) absinthe, WORMWOOD] * * * ▪ alcoholic beverage  wine based fortified… …   Universalium

• vermouth — ver|mouth [ˈvə:məθ US vərˈmu:θ] n [U] [Date: 1800 1900; : French; Origin: vermout, from German wermut wormwood ] an alcoholic drink made from wine with herbs and spices ▪ dry vermouth …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• vermouth — [19] Vermouth gets its name from its being originally flavoured with wormwood, a bitter tasting plant. The German term for the plant, and the drink, is wermut, a word of unknown origin, and this passed into English via French vermout. (The… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• vermouth — [19] Vermouth gets its name from its being originally flavoured with wormwood, a bitter tasting plant. The German term for the plant, and the drink, is wermut, a word of unknown origin, and this passed into English via French vermout. (The… …   Word origins