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- noun A
drinking song in which each person istoasted
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Big-bellied flasks of rich Grotta-Ferrata wine are filled and emptied; and bargains are struck for cattle, donkeys, and clothes; and healths are pledged and _brindisi_ are given.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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Cento Racconti per divertire gli amici nelle ore oziose e nuovi brindisi per spasso nelle tavole e nelle conversazioni.
Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane
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Healths would be drunk with clinking glasses, brindisi shouted, tricks played.
The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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There they had drunk the good red wine of Amato and called for brindisi!
The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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PAPA (_taking his revenge about the brindisi_): Don't talk so much,
Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889
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Iago sings a very original and expressive brindisi with rollicking responses by the chorus.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
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sionnach commented on the word brindisi
Libiamo, libiamo ne'lieti calici
che la belleza infiora.
E la fuggevol, fuggevol ora s'inebrii
a voluttà.
Libiamo ne'dolci fremiti
che suscita l'amore,
poiché quell'ochio al core omnipotente va.
Libiamo, amore, amore fra i calici
più caldi baci avrà.
July 5, 2008
qms commented on the word brindisi
When sailors come in from the windy sea
They drink rumbo and porter and gin freely
They sway on their benches
With sweet willing wenches
And hoist high their seidels in brindisi.
June 12, 2014
qms commented on the word brindisi
The etymology provided here seems to be a folk etymology. The Wikipedia entry is more enlightening: "The word is Italian, but it derives from an old German phrase, (ich) bring dir's – "(I) offer it to you", which at one time was used to introduce a toast.”
The name is given to a sub-genre of music in opera.
The folk etymology relies on the theory that Roman soldiers departing from Brindisi drank toasts to their success in conquering the world.
June 12, 2014