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At the Bellagio, gimlets bloomed with the scent of elderflower liqueur, and in Brooklyn they burned with cinnamon and habanero.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2013

In the third chapter, Marlowe narrates the early flourishing of something like friendship, and Lennox pines for a foreign tradition: We sat in a corner of the bar at Victor's and drank gimlets.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2013

In its cool dark depths are the steaks in a covered dish of honey-ginger marinade, the potato salad and coleslaw she put up after breakfast, and the Rose’s lime juice and vodka for the gimlets.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 11, 2010

The cool gimlets and gin slings of the Hong Kong Club were as refreshing as the food of the great hotels was dull.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those eyes fixed themselves on the girl’s face as though they were gimlets, as though they meant to pierce right into her very soul.

From A Very Naughty Girl by Meade, L. T.