apéritif
Americannoun
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apéritifs
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a small drink of alcoholic liquor taken to stimulate the appetite before a meal.
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Also called apéritif wine. a wine served as an appetizer or cocktail.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of apéritif
1890–95; < French ( vin ) apéritif; see aperitive
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Try an apéritif base like Lillet instead of vodka or gin to mix refreshing summer drinks that are lighter on booze without sacrificing complexity.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2021
Pastis is named for pastis, an anise-flavored apéritif usually mixed with water and ice before serving.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 13, 2019
With a perfume of white peaches and wild strawberries, it's gorgeous just on its own, as an apéritif, but save a bottle for the aioli too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2015
It is also an immediately disappointing placeholder that serves as an apéritif for the rest of Donker Mag.
From Time ● Jun. 13, 2014
We went out to the Café Napolitain to have an apéritif and watch the evening crowd on the Boulevard.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Decadence ruled the evening: There were fizzy apéritifs, overflowing concession stands and an in-person intro by Swift herself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
As apéritifs go, Lillet Blanc is a guaranteed crowdpleaser — not too bitter, or too herbal or too sweet.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2021
As jazz emanated from speakers and a bartender poured apéritifs, Bryan Christian, a book club habitué who works at Hyperion, arrived in a natty summer suit with patterned pocket square.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2010
I wondered what he would do for food and lodging, to say nothing of tobacco, apéritifs, and other such necessaries of life.
From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Alec Ball
His arrival created at first almost a sensation, a slight feeling of constraint even, amongst the little gathering of men drinking their apéritifs in the lounge under the stairs.
From Nobody's Man by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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