What is "rhum"

Usage examples of "rhum".

In front of the Cognac on the top shelf was a bottle of Haitian Barbancourt Rhum, aged fifteen years and as expensive as unblended Scotch.

Comte de la Roche had just finished dejeuner, consisting of an omelette fines herbes, an entrecote Bearnaise, and a Savarin au Rhum.

Comte de la Roche had just finished dejeuner, consisting of an omelette fines herbes, an entrecote Bearnaise, and a Savarin au Rhum.

Murmurs of "Oh, Carole" and "You should see the stuff on sale at Saks" accompanied big grins and hands reaching for babas au rhum.

I give you my word, my boy, until I met her I didn't know a woman existed who could talk so damned sensibly about a bavaroise au rhum.

She paints so thickly over the stratified residue of yesterday and the day before yesterday and the day before the day before's cosmetics you can hardly make out the wens and blemishes under all the layers of paint, graffiti and old posters -- voluptuous, oppressive, corrupt, self-regarding London marinating in the syrup of her own decay like baba au rhum, while the property speculators burrow away at her guts with the vile diligence of gonococci.

A couple of decades ago he would have sighed hopelessly at the racial slur, but he had long since reconciled himself to the fact that his son was a product of his environment and would never be as cosmopolitan as Otho was, with his fancy education at the Lady Wilburdon School for Mathematical Geniuses on the Isle of Rhum.

In the western islands of Mull, Rhum, Eigg, Canna, and Soay, we found excellent training grounds—small landing areas of sand in an otherwise impossible rocky coast.

Per prima cosa staccai una foglia verde e la masticai, col risultato di provocarmi una specie di stordimento, perché il tabacco era verde e molto forte, ed io raramente ne avevo fatto uso: poi ne presi ancora un poco e lo misi a macerare un paio d'ore nel rhum, deciso a prenderne una dose al momento di coricarmi.