noun
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a potent green alcoholic drink, technically a gin, originally having high wormwood content
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another name for wormwood
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Origin of absinthe
1605–15; < French < Latin absinthium wormwood < Greek apsínthion
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A classic French anise-flavored spirit, pastis was developed after absinthe was banned in 1915, and differs primarily by omitting the wormwood.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2022
“There’s something glamorous about it, there’s something alluring but also poisonous,” Mr. Toor said, laughing, before going on to say that it could evoke snakes, poison gas and absinthe.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2020
Baz Luhrmann's 2001 jukebox musical was the film equivalent of absinthe, mind-alteringly great for some, queasily awful for others.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2019
These days, the books are stashed in a closet, and the visible artifacts in the apartment are homages to anime, absinthe, bodybuilding, and John Waters.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 20, 2018
Isobel hesitates, glancing around at the clientele, a mostly bohemian crowd sipping absinthe and arguing about art.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Peter Schaf of Tempus Fugit Spirits, which specializes in absinthes and other historic spirits, notes that the addition of other herbs probably is partly due to the scarcity of artemisia plants.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2016
That’s largely a Czech Republic gimmick, one that seems to have been devised to hide the fact that many Czech absinthes aren’t true absinthes and are best when you don’t actually taste them.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2015
He is describing depression and alienation and every single thing the existentialists worried about over their absinthes.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 31, 2012
I had myself heard stories of a long dark room with a languid woman lying on a couch, smoking cigarettes, sipping absinthes perhaps and looking out upon the world with tired, disdainful eyes.
From Geography and Plays by Stein, Gertrude
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