eau de vie
Example Sentences
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“They would use real apple juice or clarified apple juice or they would use an eau de vie from Europe.”
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025
If any of you uncover some ancient recipe for pickles and eau de vie, something that balances the humors, perhaps, let me know.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
Taking the play in is like sipping a rarefied eau de vie, the kind that scalds as it cools.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2019
Yes, Oncle Jazon; but first be seated, and let me offer you just a drop of eau de vie; some that Papa Roussillon brought back with him from Quebec.
From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice
He left the impression on me that there was more money to be made nowadays in France by travelling with samples of eau de vie and groceries than with church candlesticks and chasubles.
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Barker, Edward Harrison
