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US
/ˈæbsɪnθ/
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[ UK /ˈæbsɪnθ/ ]
[ UK /ˈæbsɪnθ/ ]
NOUN
- strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise
- aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe
How To Use absinthe In A Sentence
- Any series that can combine absinthe, mannequins, mimes, and beheadings and pull it off is okay in my book.
- Sadly, that too has disappeared from Montmartre as absinthe is still illegal in France, and public drunkenness on the scale of Lautrec's is no more.
- Indeed, the image that often comes foremost to mind when considering absinthe is a streetful of dissipated Parisian intellectuals, some of whom sunk into poverty and madness by dancing a bit too closely with the Green Fairy. Boing Boing
- Packaged in a slick, silver and green aluminium bottle and emblazoned with a catchy logo, it advertised itself as a blonde ale flavoured with absinthe.
- Beside him is a green glass of absinthe and a pouting brunette in a feathered hat. Times, Sunday Times
- We spent the rest of that Saturday afternoon over a bottle of absinthe in the little estaminet in the cobbled alley off the boulevard du Temple. Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile
- In the belief that wormwood could protect against malaria and dysentery, the French government had issued rations of absinthe to the troops fighting in Algeria, to be mixed with the water in their canteens.
- The fresh boudin basque is disgustingly, deliciously bloody while the bottles of pistachio syrup glow like absinthe.
- Eventually, one evening, while sitting in the town's Café de la Gare, Van Gogh hurled a full glass of absinthe at Gauguin before breaking down and being carried home to bed.
- The house speciality is absinthe. Times, Sunday Times