louches

A bottle of truly disagreeable absinthe didn't help (a French brand I'd not tried before, La Muse Verte, and it louches a muddy yellow).

"Take the poison of your age. Don't lick your fingers when you turn the page." greygirlbeast 2010

A bottle of truly disagreeable absinthe didn't help (a French brand I'd not tried before, La Muse Verte, and it louches a muddy yellow).

"Take the poison of your age. Don't lick your fingers when you turn the page." greygirlbeast 2010

It louches nicely -- that is, it gains a cloudy opalescence with the addition of water -- and I can bring myself to drink it, with water and a little sugar, with something resembling pleasure.

Sampling Absinthe's Dubious Charms 2009

Il compte acheter avec ce deuxième prêt, 10 douzaines de tasses, des baignoires, des seaux, des louches et des assiettes en plastique.

Kiva Loans 2010

Then he saw that his aunt's grievance -- there came a moment, later, when she asserted as much -- was not quite what her recreant child, in Balaklava Place, had represented it -- with questionable taste perhaps -- to a mocking actress; was not a mere shocked quarrel with his adoption of a "low" career, or a horror, the old-fashioned horror, of the _louches_ licences taken by artists under pretext of being conscientious: the day for this was past, and

The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879