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Etymology

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sumac +‎ -ade

Noun

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sumacade (uncountable)

  1. A sweetened drink made with the drupes of the sumac.
    • 1986, Kathryn G. March, The wild plant companion: a fresh understanding of herbal food and medicine:
      The fruits are rinsed and pressed in cold water, which is strained for a pleasant sour drink, sumacade; the leaves are dried and smoked in pipes alone or with tobacco or other herbs and are a bland and pleasant enough smoke, possibly less injurious than regular tobacco.

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