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absinthe
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Absinthe is a 2012 American horror film starring Austin Lyon and directed by Justin Thomas Billings.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also absinth , alcoholic liqueur distilled from wine mixed with wormwood ( Artemisia Absinthium ), 1842, from French absinthe , "essence of wormwood," from Latin absinthum "wormwood," from Greek apsinthion , perhaps from Persian (compare Persian aspand ...
Usage examples of absinthe.
So, in such good company I may introduce an absinthe drip -- one absinthe drip, dripped through a silver dripper, orderly, opalescent, cool, green-eyed -- deceptive.
Absinthe, a liqueur concocted from Wormwood, is used largely in France, and the medical verdict pronounced there about its effects shows that it exercises through the pneumogastric nerve a painful sensation, which has been taken for that of extreme hunger.
Hence it may be inferred that absinthe contains really a narcotic poison which should prevent its being employed as a liqueur, or as a homely medicament, to any excess.
He ordered an absinthe for himself and a nonintoxicating cassis for Clover Lee.
Chauvinism was a matter of absinthe, natural evil, and Gabrielle Rouget.
That night, Joe and Big Chief drank absinthe from brandy snifters in a cafe unworried about war because the French had a bigger army than the Germans.
The hour for coffee is passed, and the hour for absinthe has not yet come.
Night was approaching, and the smoking-room was gradually filling with men who called for absinthe or bitters, and youths who perched themselves up on high stools, and smoked their pipes.
That our victims had been drinking absinthe was immediately apparent from the taste of the blood.
Perhaps it was the presence of the absinthe and the coca leaves, but the aftermath of this episode left us both with an ineffable feeling of disquietude.
He looked at me across his glass of absinthe and asked if I had bought a copy.
So it was rather exasperating when, his absinthe having been served and the customary platitudes passed on the weather and their respective states of health, the conversation was continued in a tongue with which Sofia was not only unacquainted but which sounded like none she had ever heard spoken.
Peter mixed him a formidable cocktail, the principal ingredients of which were absinthe and vodka.
The modern aesthete, wishing us to believe that he values beauty more than conduct, reads Mallarme, and drinks absinthe in a tavern.
She snapped her fingers and the waiter brought her another absinthe, although the fashion for the drink of Decadents has passed with the turning of the century and the introduction of mustard gas victims to polite society.