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- noun A type of sparkling
mineral water .
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Examples
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It is good form for the waitress to serve carbonated water in apollinaris glasses in the drawing room about an hour after the conclusion of the dinner.
How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration Lillian B. Lansdown
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Butter is not usually served, the individual dishes (filled) are placed at the top of the plate without doily, and if a "cup" of some sort is to be served, an apollinaris glass is placed a little below the water glass.
How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration Lillian B. Lansdown
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They sat down at a remote table and Harleston ordered two cold drinks -- an apollinaris with a dash of lemon for her, a Jerry Hill for himself.
The Cab of the Sleeping Horse John Reed Scott
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After the train was under way, the Major got himself surrounded with some apollinaris and Scotch, and then settled back to enjoy himself.
The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923
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On cross-examination it appeared that he meant apollinaris.
Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels Stephen Leacock 1906
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He was dining on filet mignon, dry toast and apollinaris.
The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886
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Claret, apollinaris, and beer were offered, the latter appearing to be the favourite.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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Here's the orders: Croker, vichy and bicarbonate of soda; Carroll, seltzer lemonade; Sullivan, apollinaris; Murphy, vichy; Plunkitt, ditto.
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon George Washington Plunkitt 1883
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The men who sit in the executive committee room at Tammany Hall and direct things are men who celebrate on apollinaris or vichy.
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon George Washington Plunkitt 1883
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Neither had he then, in answer, to articulate anything but the jollity of their having found a table at a window from which, as they partook of cold beef and apollinaris -- for he hinted they would have to save lots of money -- they could let their eyes hover tenderly on the far-off white cliffs that so often had signalled to the embarrassed English a promise of safety.
What Maisie Knew Henry James 1879
chained_bear commented on the word apollinaris
"Clear, potable water is a phenomenon of the twentieth century. Nineteenth-century cookbooks of the 1850s and 1860s usually included directions for purifying water, using different methods of filtration (sand and charcoal) or chemical additives such as alum. Bottled waters offered to many an appealing alternative to city water. Apollinaris—a popular mineral water—was listed on the most elegant menus as a beverage choice, often alongside the stronger beverages."
—Susan Williams, Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian America (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985), 139
April 14, 2010