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How to pronounce absinthe in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms artemisia absinthium, common wormwood, lad's love, old man
Type of wormwood
Type Words
Synonyms absinth
Type of cordial, liqueur

Examples of absinthe

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Breaux insisted absinthe is a victim of a historical campaign of misinformation.
From the signonsandiego.com
Today the most demand for absinthe is found in the U.S., France and Switzerland.
From the bostonherald.com
Absinthe had been banned as early as 1898 in the colony of the Congo Free State.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Uzbek cuisine and tea house features hookahs of milk, wine, cognac and absinthe.
From the latimes.com
The Lounge on 20, 1050 20th and K Street, prepares the mysterious drink absinthe.
From the sacbee.com
By the 1880s, mass production had caused the price of absinthe to drop sharply.
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The prohibition of absinthe was then written into the Swiss constitution in 1907.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Thujone is present in absinthe, but in such small doses as to be utterly harmless.
From the nzherald.co.nz
As the name suggests, it specialises in that fabulously lethal drink absinthe.
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More examples
  • Common wormwood: aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe
  • Absinth: strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise
  • Absinthe (i/u02C8u00E6bsu026Anu03B8/ or /u02C8u00E6bsu00E6nu03B8/; French: ) is historically described as a distilled, highly alcoholic (45u201374% ABV / 90u2013148 U.S. proof) beverage. It is an anise-flavoured spirit derived from botanicals, including the flowers and leaves of Artemisia absinthium ("grand wormwood"), together with green anise, sweet fennel, and other medicinal and culinary herbs...
  • Absinthe is the final recording from the band Naked City. Unlike the band's other genre-mixing releases, the music on Absinthe is consistently in an ambient and noise style.
  • Absinthe reached its peak of popularity and notoriety around the end of the nineteenth century and is now illegal not only in the United States but in Switzerland, the place of its origin. Absinthe is actually a green-hued cordial with aniseed (licorice) flavor. ...
  • Is a spirit drink made with aromatics including star anise, fennel seed, and crushed wormwood leaves. It is green in color but turns white when water is added.
  • A strong herbal liqueur distilled with herbs like anise, licorice, hyssop, veronica, fennel, lemon balm, angelica and wormwood.
  • A liquid heart medication. - e.g., Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
  • To come under the influence of absinthe in dreams, denotes that you will lead a merry and foolish pace with innocent companions, and waste your inheritance in prodigal lavishness on the siren, selfish fancy. ...