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kir|kiːr|
Also Kir.
[The name of Canon Felix Kir (1876–1968), mayor of Dijon, who is said to have invented the recipe.]
A drink made from dry white wine and crème de cassis.
1966Times Lit. Suppl. 19 May 456/5 M. Follain's work should be read with a kir, a benedictine or a calvados. 1967Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 22 Apr. 50/2 In 1967 the drink..is Kir, which the pros call blanc Cassis, or if they are really switched on, a blancass. 1967L. Deighton Expensive Place x. 74 ‘Waiter,’ he called. ‘Four kirs.’.. The white wine and cassis came. 1967A. Lichine Encycl. Wines 172 Around Dijon it [sc. Cassis] is used as a popular aperitif, a little Cassis being put in a glass that is then filled with a fairly neutral, dry white wine... Also called kir. 1968M. Tripp One is One xvii. 159 You couldn't get Kir, his customary drink, anywhere. 1974Guardian 22 Aug. 11/6 The summer aperitif ‘Kir’. |