Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of brandy.

Etymologies

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brandy +‎ -like

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Examples

  • In the mid-1990s the success of Belvedere and the French Grey Goose, with its brandylike toffee flavor and plum aftertaste, showed that people would pay $30 a bottle for vodka.

    Flavorless No More 2004

  • In the mid-1990s the success of Belvedere and the French Grey Goose, with its brandylike toffee flavor and plum aftertaste, showed that people would pay $30 a bottle for vodka.

    Flavorless No More 2004

  • But indeed, nature herself seemed to have been his vintner, and, at his birth, charged him so thoroughly with an irritable, brandylike disposition that all subsequent potations were needless.

    Bartleby 1856

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