palinka

/ pəˈlɪŋkə /

noun

1. a type of apricot brandy, originating in Central and Eastern Europe

Example Sentences

Once he drank a little too much palinka, a plum brandy made in Hungary and Transylvania that is supposed to aid digestion after a meal, and he got drunk.

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Fresh pig’s blood fried with onions and served with bread makes for a breakfast to soak up the palinka.

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Hungarians are known for “palinka”, brandy from apricots, plums, cherries, apples or pears.

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And to ease the exhaustion from cooking, they drink shots of plum “palinka”, a fiery fruit brandy.

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The house pálinka, Hungary’s fabulous fruit brandy, comes from Marton and Daughters, a small, celebrated distiller in a Danube-area village.

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