cognac

[ kohn-yak, kon-; French kaw-nyak ]

/ ˈkoʊn yæk, ˈkɒn-; French kɔˈnyak /

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noun

(often initial capital letter) the brandy distilled in and shipped from the legally delimited area surrounding the town of Cognac, in W central France.

any French brandy.

any good brandy.

Nearby words

cogitable, cogitate, cogitation, cogitative, cogito, ergo sum, cognac, cognate, cognate object, cognatic, cognation, cognisance

Origin of cognac

Borrowed into English from French around 1585–95

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Examples from the Web for cognac

From cognac to bourbon, rye to añejo tequila, many of our beloved spirits spend years aging in wooden casks.
How Much Do Whisky Casks Really Affect Taste?||December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The cognac, an effort by the Georgian vintners to replicate the traditional French liquor, is valued at $1400 for a single bottle.
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He also smokes copious amounts of weed mooched off his friends and makes miracles by turning water into cognac.
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He replied, “Oh, I had six bottles of wine and three bottles of cognac.”
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Snoop has come prepared with a bottle of cognac shaped like a curvy lady.
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If once past those dangers, her course is barred at Angouleme, Cognac, and Saintes.
Saint Bartholomew's Eve|G. A. Henty
Not one of them but bore its two ankers of the right French cognac, or its bale of silk of Lyons and lace of Valenciennes.
Rodney Stone|Arthur Conan Doyle
Then Mlle. Fouchette rummaged in the deep closet in the wall and brought forth a bottle of cognac.
Mlle. Fouchette|Charles Theodore Murray
And the Prussian, without speaking a word, poured down one after another glassfuls of cognac.
Original Short Stories, Volume 10 (of 13)|Guy de Maupassant
There's many such a fortune been made out of Mechlin and Cognac.'
Micah Clarke|Arthur Conan Doyle

British Dictionary definitions for cognac

Cognac

/ (ˈkɒnjæk, French kɔɲak) /

noun

a town in SW France: centre of the district famed for its brandy. Pop: 19 534 (1999)

(sometimes not capital) a high-quality grape brandy

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Word Origin and History for cognac

cognac

1590s, Coniacke, "wine produced in Cognac," the region in western France. The sense of "brandy" is 1755, shortened from 17c. cognac brandy, which was distilled from cognac wine. The place name is from Medieval Latin Comniacum, from the personal name Cominius and the Gallo-Roman suffix -acum.

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