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brewage

American  
[broo-ij] / ˈbru ɪdʒ /

noun

  1. a fermented liquor brewed from malt.


brewage British  
/ ˈbruːɪdʒ /

noun

  1. a product of brewing; brew

  2. the process of brewing

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of brewage

1535–45; brew + -age; modeled on beverage


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"But, most honored doctor, your culture-cure is a brewage of classic and scientific education, a teaspoonful every hour, to be well shaken before taken--probatum est."

From Landolin by Berthold Auerbach

Already the children were tightening their idle hands and drinking in their bitter cup the poisoned brewage of doubt.

From The Confession of a Child of the Century by Kendall Warren

She kneeled hastily at his side, and put the enchanted brewage to his lips, but he could neither drink nor speak, for he was dead, as I have told you.

From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France

But it was not filled with the brewage; its contents were harmless.

From Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus by Richard Short

The "milk," as he termed it, was a strong brewage of Spanish wine, singularly luxurious and palatable.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

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