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Liquorice-flavoured liqueur
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sambuca
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The sambuca was a ship-borne siege engine which was invented by Heraclides of Tarentum and were first used unsuccessfully by Marcus Claudius Marcellus during the Roman siege of Syracuse in 213 BC. Polybius describes usage of the machine: As well as these ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Italian liqueur resembling anisette, 1971, from Italian, from Latin sambucus "elder tree."
Usage examples of sambuca.
Martin, just a little fuzzy now from the need for more sleep and the effects of the Sambuca, could not help but wonder how she had managed to escape her previous boyfriends without a wedding ring.
As the sambuca rose, Alexander caught a brief glimpse of the soldiers waiting nervously in the shelter of the siege towers: they would follow the first wave to hold the breach and the ruined wall.
The sambuca shuddered into motion, the bucket bobbing up and down against the ratchet despite the restraining blocks.
Arrows, javelins, stones and heavy bolts from the catapults crashed like hail against the sides of the sambuca, and there were shrieks of pain from the men ranged along the side of the carriage, where its bulk offered no protection.
The sambuca had been wetted down before the attack began, but the wood would dry out quickly.
The sambuca trembled, the lip of the bucket bouncing against the wall as the rest of the hypaspists swarmed up the ladder after them.
There was a cheer from further long the wall as the second sambuca reached it, and then the third was in place as well, hypaspists and Foot Companions streaming up the ladders and onto the wall.
Neoptolemus, who had been in the second sambuca, made his way along the crumbling wall to join the king.
But he ordered the espresso and Sambuca from Sal the waiter, and the same for himself, and was chewing on one of the coffee beans from the Sambuca when Bernard came back.
Kelp gave him an alert look, but first Bernard had to taste his Sambuca, then he had to put a sugar cube in his espresso.
Bernard took out a pack of matches, lit one, held it over the Sambuca, and a small blue flame formed on top of the liqueur, where the coffee beans floated.
He had a coffee cup resting next to his right leg along with a small bottle of Sambuca Romana.
But with the Italians, you got evil omens, evil signs, good omens, three coins in the fountain, three beans in the sambuca, and all that stuff.
He filled my glass with sambuca, and I tried the word again, but this time in my mind.
Irish Cream and Butterscotch Schnapps, but you can make it with Sambuca and grenadine, too.