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And he was not referring unto the makers of a form of uisge beatha named Laphroaig.

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Two hundred years later, the Catalan scholar Arnaud of Villanova dubbed the active principle of wine aqua vitae, the “water of life,” a term that lives on in Scandinavia (aquavit), in France (eau de vie), and in English: whisky is the anglicized version of the Gaelic for “water of life,” uisge beatha or usquebaugh, which is what Irish and Scots monks called their distilled barley beer.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Two hundred years later, the Catalan scholar Arnaud of Villanova dubbed the active principle of wine aqua vitae, the “water of life,” a term that lives on in Scandinavia (aquavit), in France (eau de vie), and in English: whisky is the anglicized version of the Gaelic for “water of life,” uisge beatha or usquebaugh, which is what Irish and Scots monks called their distilled barley beer.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

And if they are, I want to say in my best Arkansas accent, cead mile failte -- (applause) -- beatha saol agus slainte.

President Address To Citizens Of Dublin ITY National Archives 1995

Goin 'to feed his anger with a wee drop of the uisge-beatha, no doubt.

Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993

Comes from _uisge-beatha_, and by some bloody peculiar coincidence, that also means 'water of life.'

Unwise Child Randall Garrett 1957

Possession of a Gaelic Bible (biobull) served as a talisman and, together with two other elements of domestic Highland culture -- bagpipes (piob mhor) and locally-distilled whisky (uisge beatha) -- not infrequently adorned the kitchen table simultaneously.

Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885

Usquebaugh seems similar, as noted, to uisce beatha.

MetaFilter Max Power 2010

In my bilingual dictionary, beatha means food or livelihood.

MetaFilter Max Power 2010

The ancient Celts knew how to ferment and distill grains in the first millennium BCE, and their uisge beatha, or "water of life," is now called whisky (in Scotland and Canada) or whiskey (in Ireland and the United States).

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