piquette

• “The liquor called piquette, which is manufactured by our farmers, supplies advantageously the place of wine, serving as a tonic, and at the same time quenching thirst.”

  Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs

• “In the future, "there may be less Languedoc," a region that, while it produces fine vintages, was long infamous for its "piquette," or biting wine.”

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• “Madame also is not a “bird with a long bill;” the dinner, including piquette, alias vin ordinaire, coffee, and the petit verre, costs five francs to the stranger, and one franc less pays the déjeuner a la fourchette — most men here eat two dinners.”

  Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo

• “I fancy his piquette, as they call the ordinary white wine of the country, had been too much for him.”

  Chateau and Country Life in France

• “These considerations point out in the strongest manner the poverty of this royal people, of whom two-thirds, if not three-fourths, were reduced to live on fish and cheese, and drink piquette, when the expense of the table of Vitellius amounted, in a single year, to 175 millions of”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827

• “I smile at Algerian wine growers and say, 'Ha! ha! none of your _petite piquette frélateé_ for me but good sound wine.”

  The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol

• “This would not hurt him if he were better fed, but he eats little besides his soup, and drinks bad _piquette_. ”

  Two Summers in Guyenne

• “We will supply you an omelette and piquette, and send you back sobered and friarly -- to Caen for Paris at sunset. ”

  Diana of the Crossways — Volume 3

• “You will test the truth of that after your omelette and piquette, and marvel at the quitting of your line of route for Paris.”

  Diana of the Crossways — Volume 3

• “If instead of throwing pure water upon the mash as is everywhere done, this liquid should first be slightly sweetened and heated, and then receive the addition of a little yeast, piquette of a very superior quality would be obtained.”

  Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs

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