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pisco

/pis-koh, pee-skoh; Spanish pee-skaw/US // ˈpɪs koʊ, ˈpi skoʊ; Spanish ˈpi skɔ //

比斯科酒,皮斯科酒,皮斯科,比斯科

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a brandy made in the district near Pisco, a seaport in Peru.

Examples

  • The common brandy is called Aguardiente de Pisco, because it is shipped at that port.

  • Some very considerable sugar plantations, and several villages, lie between Cañete and Pisco.

  • Pisco is merely the key to the large interior town of Yca, which is fourteen leagues distant.

  • The steamer conveyed me in eighteen hours from Callao to Pisco, where I hired horses and a guide.

  • Guano is found upon the coasts of Peru, in the islands of Chinche, near Pisco, and several other places more to the south.