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🥛 A sweet almond syrup 🍶 A barley drink
orgeat

orgeat

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A sweet almond syrup used to flavor drinks and desserts
  • noun
  • /ɔrˈʒeɪ/
: orgeat
  • When making a tiki cocktail, I use orgeat syrup for its sweet almond flavor.
  • orgeat syrup
  • orgeat (almond)

Examples

  • For my dessert, I drizzled some orgeat over the cake for added sweetness.

  • She drinks orgeat (a white, sweet syrup drink).

    Academic text (1996)

  • The recipe calls for a splash of orgeat to enhance the drink's flavor.

Surface Forms

orgeat singular
orgeats plural

Etymology

Orgeat comes from an old French word that originally meant 'made from barley', from Latin hordeum 'barley', but the drink later began to be made from almonds. So today's orgeat is the sweet almond syrup you add to cocktails and desserts.