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Fermented Mexican drink from juice of various agave plants especially the maguey
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pulque
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Agave \A*ga"ve\, n. [L. Agave, prop. name, fr. Gr. ?, fem. of ? illustrious, noble.] (bot.) A genus of plants (order Amaryllidace[ae] ) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant ( Agave Americana ), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from American Spanish pulque , of unknown origin, said to be a word from Araucanian (native language spoken in part of Chile), or else from some language of Mexico.
Wiktionary
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n. A milk-colored, somewhat viscous Mexican alcoholic drink made from the fermented sap of certain agave plants.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pulque is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of the maguey (agave) plant. It is traditional to central Mexico , where it has been produced for millennia. It has the color of milk, somewhat viscous consistency and a sour yeast-like taste. ...
WordNet
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n. fermented Mexican drink from juice of various agave plants especially the maguey
Usage examples of pulque.
Mayahuel and from her sprang the maguey plant that produces the intoxicating pulque.
Wheat, maize, beans, peppers, and squash were raised near the river, maguey for pulque, and indio products grew in the more arid areas.
So he was alone with the Great Costello, a few minutes later, when a short, plump but pretty mestiza brought them a huge tray piled with chicken, rice, beans and pulque.
But thanks to the generosity of Mateo Rosas, pulqueria proprietor extraordinare, they had pure pulque in which both cuapatle and brown sugar had been added to give it gusto.
The merchant took a long draught of his pulque, puffed his cigarro back to life, then lowered his voice conspiratorially.
While Juana prepares breakfast of corncake and pulque, Kino watches "with the detachment of God" as some ants try to outsmart each other in the dirt.
The judge removed his hat and bowed to a pair of ladies detoured into the street to bypass the doggery and he pirouetted hugely on his mincing feet and poured pulque from his cup into the old man's eartrumpet.
Because this gave much power to the drink, our good King Filipe forbade putting cuapatle and sugar into pulque but the indios continue to do it.
While other mestizos are keeping warm and dry as household servants or at least mercifully dying at an early age, clutching a cup of pulque in the gutter, I am always tempting fate by taking a jaguar by the ear.
Our men preferred to let the maguey juice sit and ferment into the drunk-making octli, or pulque, as you call it.
The only nourishment available, without spending my treasure of two reales and a few cocoa beans, was pulque.
There was pulque to steal, and if I could no longer go without solid food, I could use one of my reales to buy enough tortillas and carne to last several days.
There were ristras of dried fruit and peppers and clusters of tinware that hung like chimes and there were hogskins filled with pulque that swung from the beams like bloated swine in a knacker's yard.