Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A Eurasian currant (Ribes nigrum) bearing black berries.
- n. A cordial made from the berries of this plant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A large genus of prosobranchiate gastropodous mollusks, known as helmet-shells, formerly placed with the Buccinidæ or whelks, or with the Doliidæ, but now made the type of family Cassididæ. See cut under Cassididæ.
Wiktionary
- n. The blackcurrant plant, Ribes nigrum; the flavor of its berries
- n. A liqueur made from these berries, especially crème de cassis.
- n. A wine flavor note, suggesting the fruity and full-bodied characteristics of the fruit.
Etymologies
- From French cassis (Wiktionary)
- French, from Latin cassia, a kind of plant; see cassia. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The second, native to China and Vietnam, is commonly called cassis and is darker, stronger in flavor and forms a stick with a double roll, McGee explains.”
“Vietnam, is commonly called cassis and is darker, stronger in flavor and forms a stick with a double roll, McGee explains.”
“I recall cassis from my days in France...but, your variation on these truffles look good!”
“They bought some purple sweets called cassis to take back with them for Sheila, and they bought a large green picture-book called Bahar the Elephant.”
“Oh!" replied he, "it's a nickname my mates have given me because I generally drink 'cassis' when they force me to accompany them to the wineshop.”
“Mr. Puck is also on a first-name basis with many of Hollywood's glitterati and each year cooks up dreamy delights such as Kobe burgers, artichoke salad and tomato confit and cassis gelle for a host of celebrities at the post-Oscars Governors Ball.”
“Bryan Derballa Chef Anita Lo shakes up creme de cassis, a liqueur made from black currants.”
“Bryan Derballa for The Wall Street Journal For cookouts, Ms. Lo chooses drinks that feel light, such as a blend of sparkling wine and crème de cassis.”
The Wall Street Journal: Giving Guests a Sense of Adventure at a Cookout
“Sunflowers, lavender, cassis – and not a budget flight in sight.”
The Guardian: Alternative hen, stag and honeymoon destinations
“This blend of 86% cabernet franc and 14% merlot shows ripe, intense blackberry and cassis fruit aromas on the nose, which are accented by vanilla, toasty oak and some dried plum layered beneath.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cassis’.
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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French words in German language
words and phrases with french background commonly used in the german language, so-called "Gallizismen"
trottoir, paravent, rayon, perron, fauteuil, garage, arrangement, etablissement, portemonnaie, parterre, coupé, voliere and 123 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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miscellanea
antimacassar, snootful, sessile, glagolitic, marrowsky, farrago, keel, calumny, rheum, talisman, tally, awry and 508 more...
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Bonjour, cheese-eating surrender monk...
aka words we stole from the French
jejune, odalisque, puissant, sobriquet, minatory, remand, marauding, pullet, paragon, sanguine, parvenu, en passant and 20 more...
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shingle, poise, alabaster, soft, languid, vacuous, requiem, lethargy, lucid, slake, plutonium, damasked and 88 more...
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seafoamgreen's Words
saturnine, ambergris, tuberose, bergamot, neroli, vetiver, cassis, chypre, cardamom, frangipane, heliotrope, oudh and 3 more...
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.flora
amaranth, anther, apothecary, birch, bloom, bramble, briar, cedar, clove, currant, thorn, thicket and 63 more...
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Whatever you rolled in, it sure smell...
aka words having to do with scent
oude, sillage, vanilla, chypre, mephitic, noisome, opoponax, patchouli, cardamom, grains of paradise, rice flower, chamomile and 67 more...
Tweets
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arby see blackcurrant. Dec 6, 2007