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palm wine

noun

  1. wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.


palm wine

noun

  1. (esp in W Africa) the sap drawn from the palm tree, esp when allowed to ferment
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of palm wine1

First recorded in 1605–15
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Example Sentences

This made the eaters very thirsty, and quite ready to drink quantities of palm wine afterward.

The exception referred to is the occurrence of a free sugar, supposed to be rhamnose, in a certain palm-wine.

They line the bottom with reeds and straw, and taking on board merchandise, chiefly palm wine, float down the stream.

They are totally unacquainted with strong or spirituous liquours; and their principal beverage is palm wine.

But rum flowed literally in buckets, and palm wine several days old, which is even stronger.

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