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maraschino
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES maraschino cherry EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I like knowing about maraschino in a daiquiri. ▪ Insist on extra maraschino cherries. 3. ▪ Tomorrow, before I return to New York, I will buy him a new bottle of maraschino .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur [syn: maraschino cherry ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1791, "cherry liqueur," from Italian maraschino "strong, sweet liqueur made from juice of the marasca" (a bitter black cherry), a shortening of amarasca, from amaro "bitter," from Latin amarus "sour," from PIE root *om- "raw, bitter." Maraschino cherry ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A sweet liqueur made from marasca cherry
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maraschino \Ma`ra*schi"no\, n. [It., fr. marasca, amarasca, a sour cherry, L. amarus bitter.] A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Maraschino is a liqueur from the city of Torreglia ( Italy ), obtained from the distillation of Marasca cherries . The small, slightly sour fruit of the Tapiwa cherry tree (cerasus acidior), which grows wild along parts of the Dalmatian coast , lends the ...
Usage examples of maraschino.
I advised my guests to take Maraschino with it, and those ladies who appreciated the liqueur drank it as if it had been water.
Fearing she might turn at any moment, Arlo obfuscated: he wrenched camouflage from the shelves and flipped it into the cart, heedless of form or content to the act: a box of Tampax, a tin of litchi nuts, a jar of maraschino cherries, a pack of frozen prawns, dietetic grapefruit slices.
After all, what kind of self-respecting billionaire would run out of maraschino cherries?
The same way a maraschino cherry laced with tetrodotoxin could be hidden among other, innocent, maraschino cherries, a loa, assuming the shape of a young woman in a wet T-shirt, could hide among other young women in wet T-shirts.
Pemulis behind him making a show of putting a maraschino on top of the small twizzle of Redi-Whip that O.
Whiskey or rum taken unmixed from a tumbler is a knock-down blow to temperance, but the little thimbleful of brandy, or Chartreuse, or Maraschino, is only, as it were, tweaking the nose of teetotalism.
Lines like, "My dreams would grow hair on a heron I have douched a dead duck with maraschino I have danced with Dahmer in my denims from the Gap I hide an apricot beneath my Calvin Kleins" Lines like those -- I don't begin to know what they mean yet they make me feel a sense of awe and transcendence.
One day not long before the thumbectomy - perhaps even less than a week - Annie had come in with two giant dishes of vanilla ice-cream, a can of Hershey's chocolate syrup, a pressure can of Reddi-Whip, and a jar in which maraschino cherries red as heart's blood floated like biology specimens.
It would never occur to her that Seth was eating ice cream with butterscotch, hot fudge sauce, and maraschino cherries at this unhealthy hour because he really wished to be shackled to the bedposts, or to be searched inappropriately and for a long time.
But I've got a better idea: how about a hot fudge sundae with oodles of hot fudge sauce, whipped cream, nuts, and a maraschino cherry?
I had a bachelor's icebox: a jar of maraschino cherries, an opened package of Philadelphia cream cheese with fungus growing on it, two tv dinners--Hawaiian shrimp and Salisbury steak--and a tin of condensed milk.