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Angostura

noun
1.
The bitter bark of a South American tree; used in medicines and liqueurs and bitters.  Synonym: angostura bark.



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"Angostura" Quotes from Famous Books



... Siegert's genuine Angostura Bitters in a Sherry glass and roil the glass 'till the Bitters entirely cover ...
— The Ideal Bartender • Tom Bullock

... Government of Spain, by the reestablishment of the constitution of 1812, is an event which promises to be favorable to the revolution. Under the authority of the Cortes the Congress of Angostura was invited to open a negotiation for the settlement of differences between the parties, to which it was replied that they would willingly open the negotiation provided the acknowledgment of their independence was made ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... OFFICINALIS.—This South American tree furnishes Angostura bark, which has important medical properties, some physicians in South America preferring it to cinchona in the treatment of fevers. Its use has been greatly retarded by bark of the deadly nux-vomica tree having been inadvertently sold for it. As this bark is ...
— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders

... drink myself, old man. Where's the swizzle-stick? Oh, here, behind the Angostura bottle. And there's a fresh lime for you—got a basket of them in this morning. Now you yarn ...
— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne

... a certain political club there used, before the War, to be a popular pick-me-up compounded of a little whisky, a little Angostura and a good deal of soda-water, and known after its inventor as "a Henderson." In one respect the speech explaining his resignation which the right hon. Member for Barnard Castle delivered this afternoon resembled this eponymous beverage, for it was decidedly ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Aug. 22, 1917 • Various



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