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
It appeared that the bottle did not contain aguardiente, but had lately been filled in a tavern near Tres Pinos by an Irishman who sold had American whisky under that pleasing Castilian title.
From The Story of a Mine by Bret Harte
Here we are served by stalwart domestics, who bathe our burning feet in luke-warm water, and sponge our irritated bodies with diluted aguardiente.
From The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba by Walter Goodman
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