Cointreau
[kwahn-troh; French kwan-troh]
- a colorless, orange-flavored liqueur.
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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 ChurchillKevin 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 LondonThomas 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 ThinkWard Moore
There they entertained him with two bottles of cointreau and a stone demijohn of cornwhisky.
Greener Than You ThinkWard Moore
Cointreau
- 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.
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