Cointreau

[kwahn-troh; French kwan-troh]

Trademark.

a colorless, orange-flavored liqueur.

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Examples from the Web for cointreau

Contemporary Examples of cointreau

Well yes he did, supplemented with beers and wine and Cointreau and Champagne.
The Final Roar: Paul Reid on Finishing William Manchester’s Life of Churchill
Kevin Canfield
November 16, 2012

Historical Examples of cointreau

Georgie insisted on sparkling Moselle, and we had two bottles, and three rounds of Cointreau triple sec.
Nights in London
Thomas Burke
Even when the evening lengthened and he became more lucid under the stimulus of cornwhisky and cointreau he could not shake them.
Greener Than You Think
Ward Moore
There they entertained him with two bottles of cointreau and a stone demijohn of cornwhisky.
Greener Than You Think
Ward Moore

British Dictionary definitions for cointreau

Cointreau

noun

trademark a colourless liqueur with orange flavouring

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Word Origin and History for cointreau

Cointreau

orange-flavored liqueur, named for founders Adolphe and Edouard-Jean Cointreau, brothers from Angers, France, who set up Cointreau Distillery in 1849. The orange liqueur dates from 1875.