Definitions
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- noun a traditional Cypriot alcoholic beverage
Etymologies
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by transliteration from Greek ζιβανία
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Examples
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Salvador is, in fact, a man who has lived many lives, and "his work borrowed liberally and embellished" each of them: "his upbringing as the son of a sugar plantation owner, the sentimental education in Europe, Mediterranean evenings spent womanizing with Porfirio Rubirosa or drinking zivania with Lawrence Durrell, the meteoric fame from his scoops as a cub reporter, training with communist guerrillas in the jungles of Luzon, the argument with the Marcoses during dinner at Malaca? ang Palace."
'Ilustrado' by Miguel Syjuco, reviewed by Michael Dirda 2010
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