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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
aperitif
noun
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▪ It can serve as aperitif or dessert.
▪ It starts with a potent aperitif called Mulsum which takes twenty four hours to mature.
▪ It was still early for dinner, so they had aperitifs at a cafe in a street near the Gritti.
▪ Nora is distinctly gloomy tonight-perhaps on account of the seaweed aperitif.
▪ Over aperitifs, there was a chance to mingle with friends old and new, before sitting down to luncheon.
▪ That evening, he and Elinor drank aperitifs in the summer salon.
▪ They have a variety of interesting reception options including aperitifs in the famous London Zoo Aquarium.
▪ Your private beach Enjoy a cool aperitif Can you think of anywhere better for breakfast?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
aperitif

1894, "alcoholic drink taken before a meal to stimulate the appetite," from French apéritif "laxative, laxative liqueur," literally "opening," from Latin aperitivus, from aperire "to open" (see overt). Compare Middle English apertive (adj.), a medical word meaning "capable of opening or dilating" (pores, etc.), early 15c.

Wiktionary
aperitif

n. (alternative form of apéritif English)

WordNet
aperitif

n. taken before a meal as an appetizer

Usage examples of "aperitif".

I reached for my memory of the earlier encounter but found it veiled by too much aperitif and the heady scent of the young woman beside me.

No elderly, overweight, unkempt and accented Polish Jew, long-retired from the snack bar business and needle trade, had ever managed an aperitif in the establishment, let alone membership.

I turned up for aperitifs with the passengers more or less at the point of a gun.

Antique mirrors, gold-lettered with advertisements for cigarettes and aperitifs, were fixed to every wall.

Different sorts, to make aperitif, like quinquina, or digestif, like anis.

The diplomats ordered a wild variety of mixed drinks and aperitifs, things with a twist of that, three jiggers of this, shaken and mixed just so, but once everyone had been served, the atmosphere relaxed considerably.

I was sipping an aperitif and had turned to Miss Giles to answer a question.

The diplomats ordered a wild variety of mixed drinks and aperitifs, things with a twist of that, three jiggers of this, shaken and mixed just so, but once everyone had been served, the atmosphere relaxed considerably.

While I drank an aperitif of glucose and dilute ascorbic acid, preparations for a big ceremony were going on around me.

He sipped his aperitif and nibbled on black Kalamata olives while scrutinizing the balance in his account.

Candied icicles for aperitif, ice burgers, fried avalanche, sludge freeze as a beverage, and snow cones for dessert.