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Ratafia   Listen
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Ratafia  n.  (Written also ratifia and ratafee)  A spirituous liquor flavored with the kernels of cherries, apricots, peaches, or other fruit, spiced, and sweetened with sugar; a term applied to the liqueurs called noyau, curaçao, etc.






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"Ratafia" Quotes from Famous Books



... in literature a leafy style, if there be any fruit under the foliage, is preferable to a knotty one however fine the grain. Whipt cream is a good thing, and better still when it covers and adorns that amiable compound of sweetmeats and ratafia cakes soaked in wine, to which Cowper likened his delightful poem, when he ...
— History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange

... moral must have lain in the booty. A peach is the moral of a peach, and moral enough; but if a man will have something better—a moral within a moral—why, there is the peach-stone, and its kernel, out of which he may make ratafia, which seems to be the ultimate morality that can be extracted from a peach. Mr. Archdeacon Williams, indeed, of the Edinburgh Academy, has published an octavo opinion upon the case, which asserts that the moral of the Trojan war was ...
— The Notebook of an English Opium-Eater • Thomas de Quincey



Words linked to "Ratafia" :   brandy, ratafee, macaroon



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