pisco

[ pis-koh, pee-skoh; Spanish pee-skaw ]

noun

1. a brandy made in the district near Pisco, a seaport in Peru.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pisco¹

1840–50, Americanism; < Spanish

Example Sentences

Lunch and a beer in the sun at Tio Bob’s is a must-do, as is a relaxing evening with a pisco sour in hand at the Portillo Bar.

From Outside Online

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

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

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

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

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

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