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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An ardent spirit resembling Batavia arrack, distilled by the Chinese from rice or from large millet. The name is also applied in China to all spirituous liquors, such as gin, whisky, and brandy. See rice-wine.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A spirituous liquor distilled by the Chinese from the yeasty liquor in which boiled rice has fermented under pressure.
Examples
“Bundles of joss-sticks, rice, fish, pork, and a jar of samshoo (rice arrack) are taken aboard, and by ten o'clock we are underway.”
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
“After satisfying himself by questioning the yameni-runners, that I am without companions or other baggage save the bicycle, the Che-hsein ferrets out a bottle of samshoo and tenders me a liberal allowance in a tea-cup.”
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
“Hot samshoo is first poured down his throat and rubbed on his joints, then he is rolled over on his stomach; Yung Po then industriously flagellates him in the bend of the knees with a flat bamboo, and his wife scrapes him vigorously down the spine with the sharp edge of a porcelain bowl.”
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
“The Chinese people are naturally sober, peaceful, and industrious; they fly from intoxicating, quarrelsome samshoo, to the more congenial opium-pipe, which soothes the weary brain, induces sleep, and invigorates the tired body.”
“Riotous they are, beyond a doubt, for even as the Che-hsein pours out the samshoo the clamorous howls of "Fankwae.”
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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hernesheir One for the liquor and spirits listers. Dec 3, 2010