mescal
See also: Mescal
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Etymology edit
From Mexican Spanish mezcal, from Nahuatl or Classical Nahuatl mexcalli (“intoxicating drink made from fermented agave juice”), perhaps from metl (“maguey (agave)”) + ixcalli (“stew”).
Noun edit
mescal (countable and uncountable, plural mescals)
- A Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave.
- 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 77:
- He thought: 900 pesos=100 bottles of whiskey=900 ditto tequila. Argal: one should drink neither tequila nor whiskey but mescal.
- The peyote cactus.
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Mexican alcoholic drink
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Etymology edit
From Mexican Spanish mezcal, from Nahuatl or Classical Nahuatl mexcalli (“intoxicating drink made from fermented agave juice”), perhaps from metl (“maguey (agave)”) + ixcalli (“stew”).
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mescal m (plural mescais)
- peyote; mescal (small, spineless cactus of Mexico and the southern United States)
- mescal (Mexican alcoholic drink made from agave)