brewage
Americannoun
noun
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a product of brewing; brew
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the process of brewing
Etymology
Origin of brewage
Example Sentences
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No less than five persons, during the forenoon, inquired for ginger-beer, or root-beer, or any drink of a similar brewage, and, obtaining nothing of the kind, went off in an exceedingly bad humor.
From House of the Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Make the brewage sure, quick, decisive; there must be no mistake about it.
From Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus by Short, Richard
And those two heads o'er the watersheds Of the Thames and Lea do hover, Till a noxious brewage of slime and sewage Is the draught of the water-lover.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, September 30th 1893 by Various
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 France, Marie de
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 Warren, Kendall
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