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margarita
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cocktail made with tequila, 1963, from the fem. proper name, the Spanish form of Margaret. Earlier "a Spanish wine" (1920).
Wiktionary
n. A cocktail made with tequila, an orange-flavoured liqueur, and lemon or lime juice, often served with salt encrusted on the rim of the glass.
WordNet
n. a cocktail made of tequila and triple sec with lime and lemon juice
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Wikipedia
The margarita is a cocktail consisting of tequila, triple sec and lime or lemon juice, often served with salt on the rim of the glass. The drink is served shaken with ice (on the rocks), blended with ice (frozen margarita), or without ice (straight up). Although it has become acceptable to serve a margarita in a wide variety of glass types, ranging from cocktail and wine glasses to pint glasses and even large schooners, the drink is traditionally served in the eponymous margarita glass, a stepped-diameter variant of a cocktail glass or champagne coupe.
A margarita is a cocktail.
Margarita may also refer to:
"Margarita" is a song by R&B singer Sleepy Brown's from his third studio album Mr. Brown. It features rapper Big Boi and singer Pharrell Williams. The song debuted at #8 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart but fell off soon after.
Margarita is a 2007 Philippine drama starring Wendy Valdez of Pinoy Big Brother: Season 2. First announced by Valdez in a guest appearance on The Buzz, the series was promoted as "the most controversial and boldest TV series." It aired on ABS-CBN's Primetime Bida slot at 6 PM.
Margarita is a story of young woman who, in her desire to give her family the best life she can imagine, ends up working as a showgirl. She gets paid by giving entertainment and enticing the fantasies of many men. But deep inside, Margarita dreams of a better life and longs for happiness and true love.
The series ended with an incomplete storyline on September 21, 2007, having lasted less than two months on the air.
Margarita is a Spanish name. The flower "Daisy" is called Margarita in Spanish. However, the true origin of this name is Roman. In Latin the word 'margarita' meant 'pearl'. It is also used in Greek, Bulgarian and Russian. It is a variant of the English name Margaret. Persons with this name include:
- Infanta Margarita, 2nd Duchess of Hernani (b. 1939)
- Margaret of Austria (1584–1611)
- Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler
- Princess Margarita of Bourbon-Parma, Dutch princess
- Margarita Teresa of Spain, Holy Roman Empress
- Princess Margarita of Romania (b. 1949)
- Margarita Cedeño de Fernández, Dominican politician and lawyer, current First Lady and Vice President Elect of the Dominican Republic
- Margarita Aliger (1915–1992), Soviet poet and journalist
- Margarita Armstrong-Jones (b. 2002), fourteenth in line for the British throne
- Margarita Carmen Cansino, the birth name of American actress Rita Hayworth
- Nitza Margarita Cintron, Chief of Space Medicine at NASA's Johnson Space Center
- Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela, the consort of Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria
- Margarita Karapanou, Greek novelist
- Margarita Volkovinskaya, the birth name of Uzbekistan actress Rita Volk
- Margarita Levieva, Russian-American actress
- Margarita López, politician in New York City, USA
- Margarita Beatriz Luna, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Mexico
- Margarita Moran-Floirendo, Miss Universe 1973 from the Philippines
- Margarita Mamun, Russian rhythmic gymnast
- Margarita Nazarova, several people
- Margarita Ponomaryova (b. 1963), Russian hurdler
- Margarita Pracatan, Brazilian singer
- Margarita Starkevičiūtė, Lithuanian politician
- Margarita Xirgu, Spanish stage actress
- Margarita Zavala, former First Lady of Mexico
- Alexandra Margarita Russo, a.k.a. Alex Russo, a character from Wizards of Waverly Place, and her mother Theresa Magdalena Margarita Russo
Margarita is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Margaritidae.
The name of this genus has become invalid as junior homonym of Margarita Leach, 1814 [Bivalvia, Pteriidae], a synonym of Pinctada Röding, 1798. The accepted name is Margarites Gray, 1847
Margarita is a fictional character from the novel The Master and Margarita by the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov.
"Margarita " - is a Soviet song written by Yury Chernavsky and Alexander Markevich. that was first released on Valery Leontiev album Wicked Way in 1990.
Margarita was a TV show broadcast on Zee TV in 1997, starring Milind Soman and Rajeshwari Sachdev in lead roles, with Nadira, Kalpana Iyer and others.
Usage examples of "margarita".
Kiev, when the bookkeeper was arrested and a host of other quite stupid and incomprehensible things took place --Margarita woke up at around noon in her bedroom with bay windows in the tower of the house.
To Cartagena came the gold and emeralds of New Granada, the pearls of Margarita and Rancherias, and the indigo, tobacco, cocoa and other products of the Venezuelan coast.
He could not see the humour of his situation at the moment, but as he took a short cut through the shady mesquites toward his hut, he presently espied Margarita in ambush.
Macanao, at the western end of Margarita, the Isle of Pearls, then famous in all the cities of the Mediterranean, and at the great German fairs, and second only in richness to that pearl island in the gulf of Panama, which fifteen years before had cost John Oxenham his life.
Sadra Rosales was nursing a margarita, talking to her best friend, Flavia, a slightly overweight and overly made-up woman with dyed red hair.
Beneath Margarita floated the roofs of buses, trams and cars, and along the sidewalks, as it seemed to Margarita from above, floated rivers of caps.
Margarita was always at my disposal, and after a few days so was the fair Buonacorsi, who was much the prettier of the two.
The rest of my time I spent at home, where I had Margarita, the fair Buonacorsi, and young Menicuccio, who told me so much about his lady-love that I felt quite curious to see her.
In vain Dietrich menaced Guy with the terrors of the Club: Aunt Lisbeth begged of Margarita not to leave her with the footmen in vain.
Kinsey waved off her answer and reached for the pitcher of margaritas on the bar table, then filled two salt-rimmed glasses, one for herself and one for Cat.
She weaved a little, feeling the effects of the margaritas and conscious of the world swimming at the edges of her vision.
We were left alone at the big round table, sipping margaritas and staring out at the sunset over the Yucatan Peninsula, 12 miles across the channel.
The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half-pound of either sausage, bacon or corned beef hash with diced chilies, a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of key lime pie, two margaritas and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert.
I went to the kitchen and mixed a batch of margaritas, toying with the blender while I pictured Dick cruising north from Houston in his big black Caddy, his.
Glenn had had her moments of regret, but nothing life-threatening, and they had passed through those years spending nappy money on a boat, went to dinner on birthday cash and drank margaritas in Mexico at Christmas after her mother had died.