Crossword clues for julep
julep
- Southern refreshment
- Minty southern refreshment
- Minty race-day drink
- Minty Derby drink
- Mint __ (bourbon drink)
- Kentucky Derby potable
- Drink in a frosted glass
- Cocktail with a sprig of green
- Churchill Downs drink
- Bourbon cocktail
- Sweet, syrupy drink
- Place for mint
- Minty Derby cocktail
- Minty concoction
- Minty beverage
- Mint cocktail
- Kentucky Derby beverage
- Drink made with mint, bourbon, sugar and water
- Drink in a Dixie cup?
- Derby patron's quaff
- Derby cocktail
- Cocktail with bourbon and sugar over crushed ice
- Bourbon-based beverage
- Bourbon-and-mint drink
- Aromatic cocktail
- (Minted) drink made with bourbon, sugar and crushed ice
- Kentucky Derby favorite
- Dixie drink
- Mint ___ (alcoholic drink)
- Something to sip
- Derby drink
- Syrupy drink
- Minty drink at Churchill Downs
- Kentucky Derby drink
- Churchill Downs favorite
- Sweet drink from the Persian for "rose water"
- Derby favorite
- Bourbon and sugar and mint over crushed ice
- Mint drink
- Plantation libation
- Southern drink
- Cool drink
- Magistrate buttonholes university lecturer with energy drink
- Frenchman with money for second drink
- Bourbon with ice, sugar and mint
- Drink in short pitcher starts to loosen everyone's principles
- Bar order
- Bar offering
- Minty quaff
- Minty cocktail
- Bourbon drink
- Minty potable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Julep \Ju"lep\ (j[=u]"l[e^]p), n. [F., fr. Sp. julepe, fr. Ar. & Per. jul[=a]b, jull[=a]b, fr. Per. gul[=a]b rose water and julep; gul rose + [=a]b water.]
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A refreshing drink flavored with aromatic herbs; especially (Med.), a sweet, demulcent, acidulous, or mucilaginous mixture, used as a vehicle.
--Milton.Honey in woods, juleps in brooks.
--H. Vaughan. An alcoholic beverage composed of brandy, whisky, or some other spirituous liquor, with sugar, pounded ice, and sprigs of mint; -- called also mint julep. [U.S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., a syrupy drink in which medicine was given, from Old French julep (14c.), from Medieval Latin julapium, from Arabic julab, from Persian gulab "rose water," from gul "rose" (related to Greek rhodon, Latin rosa) + ab "water," from PIE root *ap- (2) "water" (see water (n.1)). Sense of "alcoholic drink flavored with mint" is first recorded 1787, American English.
Wiktionary
n. A refreshing drink flavored with aromatic herbs, especially mint.
WordNet
n. bourbon and sugar and mint over crushed ice [syn: mint julep]
Wikipedia
Julep Beauty, Inc. is a privately held Seattle, WA based cosmetics company founded in 2007 by Jane Park, a former Starbucks and Boston Consulting Group executive. The company sells its products online, which includes the company’s Julep Maven service, in retail and in its branded beauty parlors.
Julep and similar may mean:
- Mint julep, a mixed alcoholic drink, or cocktail, consisting primarily of bourbon (or some other spirit) and fresh mint
- Mint Julep (film), a film
- One Mint Julep, a song
- Julep (company), a company that sells cosmetics
Usage examples of "julep".
Everything seemed propitious, but though I struggled hard I simply could not get the julep spirit to descend to our mortal plane.
Bleak had first observed at the time of the julep incident in the Balloon office.
The other day the Mint Julep Veterans of Kentucky held a memorial day here, and Mr.
Their colonel was rather more approachable, he thought, sampling the julep with appreciation.
He smiled at Bones, who after all his fussy performance over making up the drink was 80 starting to look smug, and then eyed the floor where his own julep had landed.
Archbald disapproved of a julep in the early hours of the day, she realized, being a broad-minded woman, that there are exceptions to every rule of right living.
Eliza decided she would have a mint julep and sit out on the gallery until she grew tired.
Leaving her julep glass on the floor of the balcony, she returned sleepily to her bed.
Finally remembering her late night excursion, she jumped up with a gasp, closing the doors and hiding her julep glass.
Rhythm concluded as she nibbled on assorted mints from a mint julep tree: hot pepper mints, delightful compli mints, and pointed spear mints.
She wanted a julep and I took her to the Royal Orleans Hotel and we sat in silence as she drank.
Likewise he shall have my cordial julep with a portion of this confection which we do call Theriaca Andromachi, which hath juice of poppy in it, and is a great stayer of anguish.
The little man stood tiptoe, and putting his head first to one side and then the other, and snuffing considerately in the directions of the various bottles, ordered at last a mint julep, in a thin and quivering voice, and with an air of great circumspection.
McCoy was off by the wet bar, making a great show of mixing himself a mint julep while he listened.
I remember, for instance, an occasion when a gentleman from Kentucky had most ardently desired to get into communication with the astrals of some mint juleps he had loved very deeply in life.