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  • noun Plural form of snifter.

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Examples

  • Labor Day may be the time to put away those umbrella-laden tiki drinks (although, hell, a Zombie is great year 'round), but autumn is the perfect season to break out the snifters and drink some dark sipping rums.

    Tony Sachs: Yo-Ho-Ho And A Snifter Of Rum: Sipping Rums To Enjoy Without Paper Umbrellas Tony Sachs 2010

  • We can plan our end, imagining snifters of brandy and a library, like author Terry Pratchett, or moments of music and memory spent with loving friends, like Dudley Clendinen.

    Rev. Amy Ziettlow: To Kevork Or Not To Kevork, That Is The Question Rev. Amy Ziettlow 2011

  • Labor Day may be the time to put away those umbrella-laden tiki drinks (although, hell, a Zombie is great year 'round), but autumn is the perfect season to break out the snifters and drink some dark sipping rums.

    Tony Sachs: Yo-Ho-Ho And A Snifter Of Rum: Sipping Rums To Enjoy Without Paper Umbrellas Tony Sachs 2010

  • Knowles, not bothering to ask their preferences, fetched a bottle of cognac and four snifters from a well-stocked bar and poured out a decent measure for each of them, before seating himself next to the assistant, whom he called Maj or Maja, Regan not quite catching whether the name ended in a vowel.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • They sat up in their beloved library and drank brandy out of big snifters the way they used to at a quiet hotel bar after a raucous party in some artist's loft in SoHo.

    The Painter's Wife, a short story 2009

  • Labor Day may be the time to put away those umbrella-laden tiki drinks (although, hell, a Zombie is great year 'round), but autumn is the perfect season to break out the snifters and drink some dark sipping rums.

    Tony Sachs: Yo-Ho-Ho And A Snifter Of Rum: Sipping Rums To Enjoy Without Paper Umbrellas Tony Sachs 2010

  • They were built to teach wisdom to the clergy or poise to the sons of the aristocracy who needed to have something to discuss over their brandy snifters.

    The Folly Of Higher Education Subsidies 2011

  • Knowles, not bothering to ask their preferences, fetched a bottle of cognac and four snifters from a well-stocked bar and poured out a decent measure for each of them, before seating himself next to the assistant, whom he called Maj or Maja, Regan not quite catching whether the name ended in a vowel.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • Knowles, not bothering to ask their preferences, fetched a bottle of cognac and four snifters from a well-stocked bar and poured out a decent measure for each of them, before seating himself next to the assistant, whom he called Maj or Maja, Regan not quite catching whether the name ended in a vowel.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • (These snifters, in fact, had been smuggled out of the Pierre by a "pregnant" Richard.)

    The Painter's Wife, a short story 2009

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