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SLIVOVITZ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slivovitz mean? 

SLIVOVITZ (noun)
  The noun SLIVOVITZ has 1 sense:

1. a colorless plum brandy popular in the Balkansplay

  Familiarity information: SLIVOVITZ used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SLIVOVITZ (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A colorless plum brandy popular in the Balkans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("slivovitz" is a kind of...):

brandy (distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice)


 Context examples 


As they sank into the darkness I felt a strange chill, and a lonely feeling came over me; but a cloak was thrown over my shoulders, and a rug across my knees, and the driver said in excellent German:—"The night is chill, mein Herr, and my master the Count bade me take all care of you. There is a flask of slivovitz (the plum brandy of the country) underneath the seat, if you should require it."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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