Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sweet or dry fortified wine flavored with aromatic herbs and used chiefly in mixed drinks.
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- noun A dry, or sweet
apéritif wine flavored with aromatic herbs, and often used in mixed drinks. - noun An
aperitif wine that matches the general description of vermouth.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several white wines flavored with aromatic herbs; used as aperitifs or in mixed drinks
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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By fknvty, December 17, 2009 @ 9: 09 pm sweet vermouth is primarily for biker widgies and surf moles. perhaps the odd bottle of blackberry nip if you can’t find the g spot. bobby my dear boy, you really are pushin’ the proverbial olive here, like vodka on anyones shelf is just so … .. absolut neutral ethyl alcohol. like, no fuckin’ taste of bobspeak.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Open for business. The new renovated Ladies Lounge. 2009
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No one has traced the evolution from beer out of cans to pink ladies and even excuse-the-expression vermouth and soda.
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So dry, in fact, that he tells the bartender to merely whisper the word "vermouth" over the glass.
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**I assume "vermouth" was chosen in order to rhyme with "truth," two lines earlier, but I couldn't resist writing in the margin, "it would take a whole lot of vermouth to get drunk on!"
Archive 2007-03-01 Flavia 2007
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**I assume "vermouth" was chosen in order to rhyme with "truth," two lines earlier, but I couldn't resist writing in the margin, "it would take a whole lot of vermouth to get drunk on!"
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007
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I was never a big fan of gin, but somehow I thought the combination of gin and a mysterious ingredient called "vermouth" would take the edge off the taste.
Martinis for Dummies 2004
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"vermouth" of the Italian before the evening meal.
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Christian Schoppe/photoselection Daniel Brühl When Daniel Brühl isn't sipping vermouth with friends at a bar in Barcelona's El Raval neighborhood after an evening run, the 32-year-old actor spends the weekend cooking for friends.
Daniel Brühl Cooks Up an Ideal Weekend Mary M. Lane 2011
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We're witnessing a scene of sexual exploitation in which Jean (Siân Brooke) is treated as a mere convenience by the swaggering Roy (Daniel Coonan), who dresses, smokes, drinks a beer and leaves the taciturn Jean to her lonely swig of neat vermouth (the drink she alternates with gin).
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Turbulent Family Life Paul Levy 2011
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Then I'll drive home and there's a tradition here of drinking vermouth, so I'll hang out with friends in a bar—often Boadas in El Raval—and drink vermouth.
Daniel Brühl Cooks Up an Ideal Weekend Mary M. Lane 2011
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