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Sambuca   /sˌæmbjˈukə/   Listen
Sambuca

noun
1.
An Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice.






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"Sambuca" Quotes from Famous Books



... frequently lifted up to a great height in the air (a dreadful thing to behold), and was rolled to and fro, and kept swinging, until the mariners were all thrown out, when at length it was dashed against the rocks, or let fall. At the engine that Marcellus brought upon the bridge of ships, which was called Sambuca from some resemblance it had to an instrument of music, while it was as yet approaching the wall, there was discharged a piece of a rock of ten talents' weight, then a second and a third, which, striking upon it with immense force and with ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough



Words linked to "Sambuca" :   cordial, liqueur



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