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ginger wine

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noun

  1. an alcoholic drink made from fermented bruised ginger, sugar, and water

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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We played desert islands all the afternoon and drank Uncle's health in ginger wine.

From The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. (Edith) Nesbit

If the knee be lacerated, apply tinder to stop the bleeding; if the moxa should suppurate, spread a plaster; if a cold be caught, prepare medicine and garlic and gruel, and ginger wine!

From Tales of Old Japan by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron Redesdale

The Scottish housekeeper, Mrs. Wallace, was also a devoted friend and a great dispenser of cakes, ices, and home-made cowslip and ginger wine.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers

He was shown into the blue-and-white room, and there, after business had been transacted, very nervously on Miss Ailie's part, she offered him his choice between ginger wine and what she falteringly called wh-wh-whiskey.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

The butcher's wife gave us cake and ginger wine, and was very jolly.

From Oswald Bastable and Others by C. E. (Charles Edmund) Brock

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