julep

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  1. noun A mint julep.
  2. noun A sweet syrupy drink, especially one to which medicine can be added.

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  • If you're gonna drink a mint julep, isn't part of the attraction of that abomination all of the ceremony surrounding the making? —  The Fat Guy
  • I did not have the courage to order the spaghetti-squash-and-grilled-tofu entrée, but I can report that the funky-tasting lamb "julep"
  • Gin-sling, cock-tail, mint-julep, are about as vulgar as blue ruin and old tom at home; but sherry cobbler is an affair of consideration. —  Married ...with dinner
  • To make this style of julep, prepare a a mint-infused simple syrup. —  Dave's Football Blog
  • William Heyward Trapier, a native of South Carolina, hopped the pond to England in 1845, and during his visit he took a trip to New College, Oxford, where he apparently taught some students how to make a mint julep - I don't think it was a credited course, though. —  SFGate: Top News Stories
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  1. Middle English, a sugar syrup, from Old French, from Medieval Latin, from Arabic julāb, from Persian gulāb, rosewater : gul, rose (from Middle Persian vardā) + āb, water (from Middle Persian āp, from Old Persian).

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  1. from French julep = Provencal julep = Italian giulebbe, giulebbo, from Spanish julepe = Portuguese julepo, from Arabic jūlāb, from Persian jūlāb, assibilated form of gūlāb, julep (a sweet drink), also rose-water, from gūl, a rose, + āb, water.
 

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