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slivovitz|ˈslɪvəvɪts|
Also sliwowitz; ‖ slivovic(e), slivovitza, sljivovica.
[ad. G. slibowitz, f. Bulg. slivovitza, Serbo-Croat šljivovica plum brandy, f. OSl. sliva plum; cf. sloe.]
A central and eastern European plum brandy.
α1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 692/2 Other important articles of commerce are wine, wool, cattle, timber, hides, honey, wax and ‘slivovitza’, an inferior spirit made from plums. 1938C. Morgan Flashing Stream i. i. 72 They have a drink called Šljivovica. It's a kind of plum-brandy. 1950[see plum brandy s.v. plum n. 6]. 1973S. Jackman Guns covered with Flowers vi. 98 They drank two small glasses of sljivovica.
β1897B. Stoker Dracula i. 11 There is a flask of slivovitz..underneath the seat, if you should require it. 1900‘Odysseus’ Turkey in Europe viii. 374 The plum⁓trees [of Northern Servia] that produce the national drink of slivovitz, or plum-brandy. 1940M. Healy Stay me with Flagons 273 Kirsch and Kirschwasser..never have appealed to me; and Slivovitz I have never drunk, I think. 1951F. Brown Murder can be Fun viii. 104 What are you drinking? Me, I like slivovitz. 1960A. E. Bender Dict. Nutrition 114/2 Sliwowitz, plum brandy originating in Yugoslavia. 1960R. St. John Foreign Correspondent ix. 192 There was a young German in his compartment who had drunk too deeply of Bulgarian slivovitz. 1976New Yorker 22 Mar. 47/1 He sits by the kitchen window of his little flat,..drinking the slivovitz he smuggles into Sweden each September in carefully emptied beer bottles.
γ1958P. Kemp No Colours or Crest viii. 172 A flask of excellent Prizren slivovic. 1961E. Waugh Unconditional Surrender iii. ii. 226 Once, after a jack-pot, he was offered a glass of Slivovic. 1971Southerly XXXI. 17 Here's to scotch, to bourbon, to slivovic, to uyzo. |