lemonade
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of lemonade
1655–65; lemon + -ade 1, modeled on French limonade or Spanish limonada
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The pickle brine adds something surprisingly good to lemonade — not enough to make it taste overtly “pickle-y,” but enough to deepen it.
From Salon • May 28, 2026
And if even that felt too onerous, they could console themselves that everyone is paying 1%, even the 10-year-old who made $100 selling lemonade.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
She’s even practiced her script: “Can I please have a large cheese pizza with, um, a lemonade and brownies?”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
"It looked like an upside down lemonade bottle with something on top then it sorted of clicked that it was a prosthetic leg," she said.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026
We ate so much sweet bread and consumed so much tart lemonade, we felt gluttonous, but sinfully content.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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