aguardiente
Americannoun
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a type of brandy made in Spain and Portugal.
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a liquor, popular in South and Central America, made from sugarcane.
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(in Spanish-speaking countries) any distilled spirit.
noun
Etymology
Origin of aguardiente
An Americanism first recorded in 1815–25; from Spanish, contraction of agua ardiente literally, “fiery water”; see aqua, ardent
Example Sentences
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Each volador takes a turn walking around the tree with the incense and flowers, and sprinkling it with holy water and aguardiente.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
Lexicographer Francisco Sobrino defined ponche or diapente, in 1732, as an English drink made with aguardiente, water, lime and sugar.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2022
While the mourners weep and drink coffee with aguardiente, Connie enters a dark room full of farming implements.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 12, 2010
Of the three Americanos who founded yonder town, one was shot, another died of a fever—poisoned, you understand, by the soil—and the last got himself crazy of aguardiente.
From A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready by Bret Harte
The manufacture of aguardiente is a government monopoly, which is farmed out to contractors.
From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Thomas Belt
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