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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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
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
The varlet took the maiden in his arms, but first he gave her the flask with the precious brewage to carry, since for pride he might not endure to drink therefrom, save at utmost peril.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de
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
"A far better brewage, madam," I said, "but you must pardon the Staffordshire fashion of serving it."
From The Yeoman Adventurer by Gough, George W.
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