apéritif
noun
a small drink of alcoholic liquor taken to stimulate the appetite before a meal.
apéritifs
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pluralof apéritif.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
