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absinthian

/ab-sinth/US // ˈæb sɪnθ //UK // (ˈæbsɪnθ) //

苦艾酒,苦艾,苦艾草,苦艾素

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a green, aromatic liqueur that is 68 percent alcohol, is made with wormwood and other herbs, and has a bitter, licorice flavor: now banned in most Western countries.
    • : wormwood.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • And the Absinthe House has a full list: Other famous imbibers include P.T. Barnum, Oscar Wilde, and General Robert E. Lee.

  • I ask Cuco how The Verne Club gets illegal, over-proof alcohol like absinthe through the fine-toothed comb of Argentine customs.

  • They also brought labor unions, anarchism, socialism, and, of course, absinthe.

  • Because of the ban, bars that served absinthe grew increasingly paranoid.

  • There is something about being in Captain Nemo's Nautilus that makes the absinthe taste even better.

  • Lachaume, the painter, and I were chatting at one of its little tables, he over an absinthe and I over a coffee and cognac.

  • He was seated at a table, on which stood a carafe of water, a bowl of sugar, and a glass of absinthe.

  • Dick thought it remarkable that a painter should choose to work over an absinthe in a public café, and looked the man over.

  • Vermouth and absinthe had been served to whet their appetites, and every one had been at once put into good spirits.

  • Absinth, Absinthe, ab′sinth, n. spirit combined with extract of wormwood.