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vermouth

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Etymology

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From French vermout, vermouth, from German Wermut (“wormwood”). Doublet of wormwood.

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Noun

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vermouth (countable and uncountable, plural vermouths)

  1. A dry, or sweet apéritif wine flavored with aromatic herbs, and often used in mixed drinks.
    Hyponyms: Martini, (dated slang) French
    • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind‎[1]:
      He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.
    • 2014, Ray Foley, Bartending For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 116:
      Vermouth originated in the 18th century, when wine growers in the foothills of the French and Italian Alps developed a method of enhancing the taste of sour or uncompromising wines with the infusion of a variety of sweeteners, spices, herbs, roots, seeds, flowers, and peel.
    • 2023 July 20, Eric Asimov, “This Summer, Pause for the Vermouth Hour”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN:
      Earlier this year while in Madrid, I fell prey to what the Spanish call la hora del vermut, the vermouth hour, a break in the day for a glass, generally before eating.
  2. A serving of vermouth.

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French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Wermut.

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vermouth m (plural vermouths)

  1. vermouth

Descendants

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  • → English: vermouth
  • → Romanian: vermut
  • → Turkish: vermut

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Italian

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Noun

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vermouth

  1. vermouth
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