manzanilla

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In the end he had gone into a café and drunk manzanilla, and with the limp complaisance of a wrecked seasick man whose raft has shivered and left him to the mercy of an octopus he had suffered adoption by a party of German engineers, who had made very merry with stories of tipsy priests and nuns who had not lived up to their position as the brides of Christ.

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  1. A kind of small roundish olive with a small freestone pit, a fine skin, and a peculiar bitterish flavor. Manzanillas are commonly pitted and stuffed with Spanish pimientos.

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  1. very dry pale sherry from Spain

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  • A bit of 06 burgundy, a few older aussies, some 07 german Rieslings and a bit of 06 Chianti Classico, so its nice to get back in the swing of things with an excellent manzanilla. —  Tinto y Blanco
  • In the new study, Atsushi Kato and colleagues point out that chamomile, also known as manzanilla, has been used for years as a medicinal cure-all to treat a variety of medical problems including stress, colds, and menstrual cramps. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • Seizing an open bottle of La Gitana dry manzanilla sherry, he mixed his first original cocktail. —  AdSense for Feeds
  • THOUGH the Johnston Street tapas-bar wave of the 1990s was really about getting blind on pisco sour and lurching around on the bar top to the Gypsy Kings rather than authentic Spanish morsels and manzanilla, there was something to be said for the cluster.
  • In the end he had gone into a café and drunk manzanilla, and with the limp complaisance of a wrecked seasick man whose raft has shivered and left him to the mercy of an octopus he had suffered adoption by a party of German engineers, who had made very merry with stories of tipsy priests and nuns who had not lived up to their position as the brides of Christ. —  The Judge
 

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