Brandy meaning

brăn'dē
An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.
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To preserve, flavor, or mix with brandy.
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An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine.
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A similar liquor distilled from the fermented juice of a specified fruit.

Cherry brandy.

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To flavor, mix, or preserve with brandy.
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A female given name derived from brandy, an alcoholic liquor. Mostly seen in American usage during the 1970s and 1980s.
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Origin of brandy

  • Short for brandy-wine from Dutch brandewijn brandende present participle of branden to burn gwher- in Indo-European roots wijn wine wine
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Brandy Sentence Examples

  • Brandy is produced in large quantities.

  • "Which is located near my apartment building," Deidre said, needing the brandy again already.

  • The manufactures include agricultural implements, leather, vinegar and plaited sandals, and there is a trade in brandy, wine, cattle, poultry and wool; there are quarries of building-stone in the neighbourhood.

  • On the other hand, he approves of a protective tax on German linen in favour of home manufactures, and of a tax on brandy as encouraging the sale of rum and so supporting our southern colonies.

  • It Financial reform, depended chiefly on the taxes on salt, tobacco, brandy, beet~ and sugar.

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