orgeat
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9.9
A sweet drink made from barley once used to cool people in summer
- noun
- /ɔrˈʒeɪ/
- Archaic
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orgeat
- In the old recipe book they served orgeat as a cooling barley drink at summer fairs.
Examples
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Before lemonade became popular, people often drank orgeat to refresh themselves in summer.
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In the old recipe book, they served orgeat as a cooling barley drink at summer fairs.
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The hostess offered her guests a glass of orgeat on a hot afternoon.
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I love orgeat!
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The orgeat is delicious.
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The hostess offered her guests a glass of orgeat on a hot afternoon.
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Before lemonade became popular, people often drank orgeat to refresh themselves in summer.
Synonyms
barley water
vsorgeat
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4.1
A drink made by boiling barley in water often given to babies or served as a mild drink
is a concentrated sweet syrup made from the grain for cooling use
Surface Forms
Etymology
Orgeat once meant a cool barley drink; its name comes from Latin hordeum 'barley' and is the same root behind Spanish horchata. That's why older recipes call orgeat a barley syrup used to refresh people in summer.