brandy
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
brandy/ˈbrandi/
▶noun (pl. brandies) a strong alcoholic spirit distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.
– origin C17: from earlier brandwine, from Du. brandewijn, from branden ‘burn, distil’ + wijn ‘wine’.
'brandy' also found in these Oxford entries:
advocaat
- aguardiente
- aqua vitae
- Armagnac
- balloon
- Benedictine
- brandy butter
- brandy snap
- Calvados
- chartreuse
- cherry brandy
- cognac
- dop
- double
- eau de vie
- eggnog
- fine
- fine champagne
- fraise
- framboise
- grappa
- hard sauce
- hooker
- kirsch
- lace
- mask
- noyau
- pisco
- shrub
- sidecar
- slivovitz
- smash
- snifter
- tiramisu
- VSOP
