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Cointreau

[kwahn-troh; French kwan-troh]
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Trademark.
  1. a colorless, orange-flavored liqueur.
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  • Georgie insisted on sparkling Moselle, and we had two bottles, and three rounds of Cointreau triple sec.

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    Thomas Burke

  • Even when the evening lengthened and he became more lucid under the stimulus of cornwhisky and cointreau he could not shake them.

  • There they entertained him with two bottles of cointreau and a stone demijohn of cornwhisky.

British Dictionary definitions for cointreau

Cointreau

noun
  1. trademark a colourless liqueur with orange flavouring
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Word Origin and History for cointreau

Cointreau

n.

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.

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