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Nantz, n. (and a.) Now only arch.|nænts|
Also 7 nantes, 7–9 nants.
[From the place of manufacture, Nantes on the Loire in France.]
Brandy. Also freq. right Nantz.
1684J. Haynes Epil. Lacy's Sir H. Buffoon, There's one's for a Cup of Nants. 1693Humours Town 29 A Tost and Ale, or perhaps, a Cup of cool Nants. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 99 His Superiors, whom nothing will go down with, under right Nantz or Rum. 1822Scott Pirate i, The devout opinion that a cup of Geneva or Nantz was specific against all cares. 1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son III. 330 It..didn't make a man's inside water⁓proof, which good Nantz would. 1889Doyle Micah Clarke 50 Let us..have a drop of the right Nants before we go.
attrib.1696Vanbrugh Relapse Pref., Drinking his mistress's health in Nantes brandy. |