brewage
Americannoun
noun
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a product of brewing; brew
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the process of brewing
Etymology
Origin of brewage
Example Sentences
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Examples of words formed in imitation of these in English itself are blockade, orangeade. -age, ending of abstract nouns, as homage; marks place where, as vicarage;—of English formation, bondage, brewage, parsonage.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
"But, most honored doctor, your culture-cure is a brewage of classic and scientific education, a teaspoonful every hour, to be well shaken before taken--probatum est."
From Landolin by Berthold Auerbach
Already the children were tightening their idle hands and drinking in their bitter cup the poisoned brewage of doubt.
From The Confession of a Child of the Century by Kendall Warren
No less than five persons, during the forenoon, inquired for ginger-beer, or root-beer, or any drink of a similar brewage, and, obtaining nothing of the kind, went off in an exceedingly bad humor.
From House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
He will hold the realm in peace; but he, too, will fall sick before his time, and die, by reason of the brewage of his friends.
From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Eugene Mason
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