negroni
Americannoun
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negronis
plural
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Etymology
Origin of negroni
1945–50; < Italian, said to be after a nobleman named Negroni, who first made the drink circa 1935
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At a Hilton Hotel bar near Tokyo, bartender Shingo Miyachi prepares a negroni with one of Kuramoto Ice's big, clear cubes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Huntsinger likens the film to a cinematic negroni: “It’s substantial but also fun, with an almost summery feel. It’s about where you’re headed after a certain stage in life, told without heavy-handedness.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
Celebrating can be as simple as walking around a neighborhood you haven’t been in before, grabbing a negroni with a friend or saying yes to that weird-but-promising new restaurant.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2025
Meanwhile, aching for distraction, we fixate on our co-workers’ living rooms during Zoom calls and proclaim the power of Stanley Tucci’s negroni instructional video.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2020
Would we find Tucci making a negroni so hot if there wasn’t a global pandemic?
From The Guardian ● Apr. 23, 2020
In the historic Japanese city of Kanazawa, craftsmen painstakingly shape and slice blocks of ice destined to chill negronis in some of the world's trendiest bars.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
For drinks, there are lots of agave tweaks on the classics such as mescal- and tequila- based takes on negronis and martinis.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2022
She studied psychology and was "worldly, sophisticated", says an old friend, Aaron Howard, who met her while he was tending bar: she drank negronis, a gin cocktail.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2021
Walter makes a convincing case for his beverage having revolutionary roots, even if negronis weren't part of any Declaration of Independence signing happy hour.
From Salon ● May 2, 2019
We ordered negronis and retired to the poop deck, where we watched the sparkling lights of Capri slide past the gunwales.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2015
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