piquette
English
Etymology
From French piquette.
Noun
piquette (countable and uncountable, plural piquettes)
- A drink of marc and water.
- 1879, Gibbons, Phebe Earle, French and Belgians, page 282:
- At dinner Pierre takes a glass of piquette, saying that they had too much wine the day before (the fête day). I look at Charles, and he has piquette too.
- 1889, The Mechanical News, page 379:
- She gave him a glass of piquette and a hunch of bread.
- 1900, Roos, L.; Dubois, Raymond; Wilkinson, William Percy, Wine-making in Hot Climates, pages 190, 195:
- The latter is usually utilized in the South of France for the production of piquettes, or the manufacture of spirit; the alcohol may be obtained by direct distillation or by the distillation of the piquettes. […] Through the same procedure the third vessel charged with the liquid from the second will yield a piquette containing 8·75 per cent. of alcohol, and the fourth vessel charged with the liquid from the third will yield a piquette containing 9·5 per cent.
- 1941, Life, page 22:
- With bread for his soup, a bottle of piquette on the table, onions and potatoes, he can carry on.
- 1967, McElrath, Clifford, On Santa Cruz Island: The Ranching Recollections of Clifford McElrath, page 7:
- The men were given a daily ration of a small bottle of piquette or watered down wine with their lunch and evening meal.
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Translations
drink
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French
Etymology
From piquer + -ette.
Pronunciation
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Noun
piquette f (plural piquettes)
- a drink of marc and water
- (informal) plonk (cheap wine)
Descendants
- → English: piquette
Further reading
- “piquette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.