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Type of cordial, liqueur

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Sambuca can be served with ice, optionally adding some coffee beans as ornament.
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Liberally dosed with sambuca tots and vodka shots, we were ready for bed by three.
From the independent.co.uk
The recipe is secret, but sambuca and Tia Maria are among the confirmed ingredients.
From the travel.nytimes.com
Dinner for two, with wine and sambuca, is about 60 euros, or $88 at $1.47 to the euro.
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Some upscale espresso bars even offer alcoholic beverages such as grappa and sambuca.
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Request a jigger of flaming sambuca, however, and you may undermine the term's cachet.
From the guardian.co.uk
Bottles of amaretto and sambuca are delivered to each table with dessert.
From the bloomberg.com
Other ancient names for harps include psalterion, magadis and sambuca.
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Dinner for two, with wine and sambuca, is about 60 euros, or 88 euros at $1.47 to the euro.
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More examples
  • An Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice
  • Sambuca is an Italian anise-flavoured, usually colorless, liqueur. Its most common variety is often referred to as white sambuca to differentiate it from other varieties that are deep blue in color (black sambuca) or bright red (red sambuca).
  • The sambuca (also sambute, sambiut, sambue, sambuque) was an ancient stringed instrument of Asiatic origin.
  • The sambuca was a ship-borne siege engine which was invented by Heraclides of Tarentum and were first used unsuccessfully by Marcus Claudius Marcellus during the Roman siege of Syracuse in 213 B.C.
  • A soft anisette flavoured liqueur from Italy.
  • A clear cordial that has a very strong, sweet licorice flavor.
  • An Italian liqueur flavored with anise. The Italians often serve it "with flies", which is actually 3 or 4 coffee beans on top of a glass of sambucca which is then flamed.
  • Rome's favorite clear anise liqueur served after dinner with a coffee bean floating on top to be crunched while sipping.
  • A colorless Italian liqueur with a strong flavor of aniseed.