red liquor

American  

noun

1. mordant rouge.

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Etymology

Origin of red liquor

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

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red liquor

The widow fainted; and what may be supposed her feelings, when she found, on coming to herself, that that identical and terrific red liquor had had a share in her recovery!

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by Wilson, John Mackay

For red on white grounds and for red grounds, a mordant of red liquor at 5° to 6° B. is printed on, with a little salt of tin or nitro-muriate of tin.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 by Various

The nearest he ever gets to red liquor is when he takes bottled grape juice for a spring tonic; but for all that he can keep the cops busier'n any thirsty man I ever saw.

From Torchy by Brehm, George

There was meat on the trenchers, and red liquor in the jeweled goblets.

From The Secret of Kralitz by Kuttner, Henry

Boys at the station were selling slabs of pudding, squares of sponge cake soaked with red liquor, pieces of papaya, cups of sweetened boiled rice, and oranges.

From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Starr, Frederick