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Calvados

Calvados

1 9.5
A strong alcoholic drink made from apples in Normandy, France
  • noun
  • /ˈkæl.və.dɒs/
translation icon : calvados
  • -CAPUTO: Calvados.
  • Calvados brandy
  • Calvados sauce
  • apples with Calvados

Examples

  • Calvados ice cream was one of the most delicious things I've ever tasted.

    Blog text (27)

  • There's perfume and cologne, brandy, port, Calvados, truffles, caviar.

    Downsizing (2017)

  • I have Calvados from my country.

    City of Ghosts (2002)

  • -DI CICCO: What the fuck is Calvados?

    The Family (2013)

  • -Calvados.

    The Family (2013)

  • It wasn't the concierge, though, because she was known to give Calvados to babies who cried in the night.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Cognac, Pernod, Calvados?

    Irma la Douce (1963)

  • Fruit orchards abound; apples yield the regional specialties—cider and Calvados.

    Academic text (1994)

  • In the corner lay a fat man who had been participating in a stag hunt through the forests of Calvados, in some world that still had a Duke of Normandy, when a cornered aurochs had knocked over his horse and given him a compound fracture.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • At a bar, he orders a Calvados to enjoy its unique flavor.

Synonyms

brandy
vsCalvados
106 2.7

A strong alcoholic drink made from wine or fruit juice and often aged in wood

is specifically from apples and made in Normandy not any fruit
applejack
vsCalvados
  • US
1 8.4

A strong alcoholic drink made from fermented apple cider

is produced in Normandy France rather than in North America

Surface Forms

Calvados singular
Calvados plural

Etymology

The word Calvados comes from the name of a place in Normandy, France, where people have made apple brandy for a long time; think of it like Champagne, which is also named after its region. So Calvados means the dry apple brandy that comes from that area.