Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A French liqueur flavored with anise or licorice, usually drunk as an apéritif.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An anise-based liqueur similar to absinthe but yellowish in color and containing no wormwood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
liqueur containinganiseed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun similar to absinthe but containing no wormwood
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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All that time I spent believing pasteis de nata was some kind of pastis …
anniversaries 2007
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Pernod, a century ago the dominant absinthe brand, was reformulated as a wormwood-free "pastis" when absinthe was banned.
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According to the Fourth Edition of Food Lover's Companion, it is used to flavor drinks such as pastis, arrack, anisette, and Ouzo.
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According to the Fourth Edition of Food Lover's Companion, it is used to flavor drinks such as pastis, arrack, anisette, and Ouzo.
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According to the Fourth Edition of Food Lover's Companion, it is used to flavor drinks such as pastis, arrack, anisette, and Ouzo.
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According to the Fourth Edition of Food Lover's Companion, it is used to flavor drinks such as pastis, arrack, anisette, and Ouzo.
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My friends and neighbors like to play, or maybe they just come for the pastis and wine?
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I continued to sip my pastis and watch the village unfold.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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The root of the fennel we eat comes from a plant that looks similar but is Foeniculum vulgare used for the root and to make various anis drinks like absinth, ouzo arak, pernod, pastis etc so popular in Souther Europe, Greece, Turkey etc..
Eneldo 2009
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I say this as someone who has been working as an academic in French studies for more than 20 years and always hated the fantasy version of France and, in particular, the image of snooty tourists sipping pastis in the Dordogne.
French is too important to be left to middle-class Francophiles | Andrew Hussey 2011
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