pisco
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pisco
1840–50, < Spanish
Example Sentences
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She welcomed him home with a bottle of pisco, Peru's national drink.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2025
And then, after all that, and although finer pisco is quite sippable on its own, people often just make a cocktail out of it.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
The 2014 summit in Lima, Peru, had an outdoor pisco sour bar.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
The farmer said that he witnessed how some farmers also sold the grapes at 14 cents a kilo, a very low price, while others made pisco to avoid losing the entire year’s harvest to rot.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 1, 2020
“Troublesome Bubblegum” brings together improbable bedfellows — pisco, watermelon, chamomile, herbaceous amaro — that refresh and delight us.
From Washington Post
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