sangria

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  1. noun A cold drink made of red or white wine mixed with brandy, sugar, fruit juice, and soda water. Also called sangaree.

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  • I suggested the plaza for us, lousy sangria or not, in the hope that he had a routine. —  AHMM,January-February2007
  • White Sangria with Fruit In the summer, white sangria is a refreshing change from white wine.
  • House music all night long with great guest DJ's every week as well as hookahs, sangria, appetizers, lots of tables, two full bars and optional bottle service. —  RA News
  • Specialty cocktails are offered; but after an encounter with the head bartender's abomination of sangria-infused with cinnamon and cardamom-I decided to skip sampling any other concoction and stuck with wine. —  New York Press
  • Not to be confused with the Spanish wine-and-fruit-based alcoholic beverage sangria, sangrita (meaning "little blood") is a traditional accompaniment to a tequila served completo; —  Jeffrey Morgenthaler
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  1. Probably from Spanish sangría, act of bleeding, sangria, from sangre, blood, from Latin sanguis, sanguin-.
 

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