Crossword clues for slivovitz
Wiktionary
n. 1 A type of rakija made of distilled, fermented plum juice. It is sometimes referred to as ''plum brandy''. 2 A serving of this drink.
WordNet
n. Hungarian plum brandy
Wikipedia
Slivovitz or Slivovitsa is a fruit brandy made from Damson plums, often referred to as plum brandy. If anyone else has a dictionary of some Slavic language that translates your word for slivovitz as "plum brandy", please add additional citations here.
!-->Slivovitz is produced in Central and Eastern Europe, both commercially as well as homemade. Primary producers are in Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria. In the Balkans it is part of the category of drinks called Rakia, while in Hungary it is part Pálinka; in Czech Republic and Slovakia Pálenka, which all are the same concept.
Usage examples of "slivovitz".
It took an hour, and they were on the second bottle of slivovitz when he finished.
Dimly he realized that never before had he drunk most of a fifth of slivovitz on top of a few whiskies on a completely empty stomach.
The management has learned the more slivovitz they can give away, the less likely their customers are to complain about the service, the size of the portions, the quality, and, most important, the size of the bill.
Calder was drinking slivovitz like water, as if it killed some private pain.
His face was flushed from the slivovitz as much as from the heat, but he was enjoying himself.
Her husband, who had a weakness for slivovitz, usually joined her behind the counter a half-hour or hour later.
Agursky had been freed from the responsibility of tending the thing in the tank, so his dependency on local vodka and cheap slivovitz had fallen off.
Ricky found the cafe, ordered a coffee and a slivovitz against the bitter March wind outside and looked around for a possible contact.
They seemed very full of themselves and ordered drinks all round, slivovitz with beer chasers, a lethal combination.
He was gone half an hour and must have shared some conviviality with an old colleague, for there was the plummy odour of slivovitz on his breath.
A flask, which by the smell of it contained slivovitz, the local plum brandy, was pressed into his hand.
If you want a real treat, buy a jar of plums preserved in slivovitz, pour it over vanilla ice cream, then set fire to it.
Marek, remembering the tears streaming down the face of the old man, almost insensible on slivovitz, who had sung to them in a smoke-filled Ruthenian hut.
Now, let me go quickly, young sir, and fetch the slivovitz before the prince comes.
Ivanovna soon returned with the slivovitz, in a fine goblet of cut crystal.