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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A large leathern bottle or bag, used in Spain and throughout the Levant for holding wine or other liquor; a wine-skin (now the current name in English). It is made of the skin of a beast, most commonly that of a goat or hog, from which the carcass has been removed piecemeal, leaving the hide whole, except at the neck and the places where the limbs were. These openings are strongly sewed up, that at the neck being furnished with a leather tube. When used for carrying water, the borachio is hung with the mouth downward, so that the tube can be untied whenever necessary, and any desired quantity be withdrawn. See cut under bottle.
  2. n. Hence A drunkard, as if a mere wine-bottle.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete A drunkard.
  2. n. historical A bottle for wine made of pigskin.

Etymologies

  1. From Spanish borracho ("drunkard, wine bottle"), from Latin burrus ("red, flushed"), from Ancient Greek πυρρός (pyrrhos, "tawny, red") (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “We should have drunk our wine poisoned with the villanous odor of the borachio, had not some Eastern merchants, lighting their fires in the Desert, marked the strange composition which now glitters on our sideboards, and holds the costly produce of our vines.”

    The Fitz-Boodle Papers

  • “D'ye think my niece will ever endure such a borachio?”

    Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

  • “Port and sherry of British manufacture, and the water with an incredible borachio, essence of tar; so that tea and coffee are but derisive names.”

    Letters from the Cape

  • “Under the deep shade of some tall trees, sheltered from the noonday sun, we lay down to rest ourselves and enjoy a most patriarchal dinner, -- some dry biscuits, a few bunches of grapes, and a little weak wine, savoring more of the borachio-skin than the vine-juice, were all we boasted; yet they were not ungrateful at such a time and place.”

    Charles O'Malley — Volume 1

  • “-- We should have drunk our wine poisoned with the villanous odor of the borachio, had not some Eastern merchants, lighting their fires in the Desert, marked the strange composition which now glitters on our sideboards, and holds the costly produce of our vines.”

    The Fitz-Boodle Papers

  • “No sooner were these words spoken, when Panurge coming up towards her, after the ceremonial performance of a profound and humble salutation, presented her with six neat’s tongues dried in the smoke, a great butter-pot full of fresh cheese, a borachio furnished with good beverage, and a ram’s cod stored with single pence, newly coined.”

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

  • “a great butter-pot full of fresh cheese, a borachio furnished with good beverage, and a ram's cod stored with single pence, newly coined.”

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3

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  • chelster After Borachio, a drunken follower of Don Juan in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. But the word had already entered English, in the leather wine bottle or bag sense, shortly before Shakespeare appropriated it for his character. — The Orthoepist Sep 13, 2011

  • yarb An eponym? After whom? May 20, 2008

  • whichbe Eponym: a drunkard. (from WordCraft) May 20, 2008

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