Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cheap rum distilled from molasses and refuse sugar in the West Indies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the West Indies, a kind of rum distilled from the fermented skimmings obtained from cane-juice during the process of boiling down, or from the lower grades of molasses, and also from brown and refuse sugar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun West Indies A variety of rum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun West Indies A variety of
rum .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In addition, the young butler had stored away certain demijohns, holding half a dozen gallons each, of excellent _ "tafia," _
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866
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Fields of sugar-canes soon required the construction of a mill to crush the sacchariferous stalks destined to be used hereafter in the manufacture of molasses, tafia, and rum.
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In addition, the young butler had stored away certain demijohns, holding half a dozen gallons each, of excellent “tafia,” a sugared brandy a trifle more pronounced in taste than the national beiju.
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It is as well to add that Araujo — that was his name — never saw better than when he had imbibed a few glasses of tafia; and he never did any work at all without a certain demijohn of that liquor, to which he paid frequent court.
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My little stock of goods began visibly to shrink, when I informed the greedy applicants that nothing beyond a leaf of tobacco and a demi verre of tafia would be given until I had seen my way to work.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Torres commenced, then, by applying to his lips a flask which he carried at his side; it contained the liquor generally known under the name of “chica” in Peru, and more particularly under that of “caysuma” in the Upper Amazon, to which fermented distillation of the root of the sweet manioc the captain had added a good dose of “tafia” or native rum.
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Here we stopped for a day and a night that Xavier and his crew might get properly drunk on tafia, while Nick and I walked about the town and waited until his
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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Without was the paper money of the Continental Congress, within the good tafia and tobacco of Monsieur Vigo.
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909
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Here we stopped for a day and a night that Xavier and his crew might get properly drunk on tafia, while Nick and I walked about the town and waited until his
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909
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Without was the paper money of the Continental Congress, within the good tafia and tobacco of Monsieur Vigo.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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