What is "calvados"

Usage examples of "calvados".

Gin, vodka, aquavit, Chablis and hock, arrak and Calvados heaped six feet high on one side.

Blue smoke signals rose from the table as the German waiter, Calvados, and kuchen arrived.

Anyway was there he picked up a taste for Calvados - the Normandy applejack.

Harry drank the half-carafe of wine Valentin had brought, and when - three-quarters of an hour later - the man re-appeared with coffee and Calvados, he told him to leave the bottle.

Madame Henriette had allowed her husband to return alone to their estate in Calvados, where some business required his attention, and had come to spend a few days in Paris with her sister.

Sharpe fetched a flask of calvados from his saddlebag, took a swig and handed it to Harper.

Maigret must have drunk a great deal of Calvados, because not only the telephone booth but the instrument as well reeked of fermented apples.

Calais where one night, while having his first after-dinner calvados, he watched a ten-year-old girl pierce her cheek with steel needles in return for whatever change the patrons tossed her way.

Calvados with his three cups of coffee, he went cheerfully up the thronged steps of the Casino with the absolute certitude that this was going to be a night to remember.

Letter of the Directory of Calvados to the Minister of the Interior, Aug. 3.

So the next morning we find your man, who's done some thoughtful thinking over his bottle of Calvados in the course of a long lonely night, thinking ahead for sure and ruminating on a more amenable future for himself, we find him respectfully approaching his White Father superiors with a modest proposal.

He lived quite differently in Timbuktu and was a very wise man with his flocks of little children and their footprints in the sky, his journeys of two thousand miles in an afternoon while sipping Calvados in a dusty courtyard.