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anisette de Bordeaux

anisette de Bordeaux

9.9
A sweet clear alcoholic drink from Bordeaux flavored with anise and drunk after a meal
  • noun
translation icon : anisette de Burdeos
  • I enjoyed a glass of anisette de Bordeaux after dinner.

Examples

  • Have you ever tried anisette de Bordeaux?

  • He purchased a rare vintage of anisette de Bordeaux during his trip to France.

  • After dinner, she offered her guests a glass of anisette de Bordeaux as a digestif.

  • The fragrance of anisette de Bordeaux filled the air as the bottle was opened.

  • After dinner, she offered her guests a glass of anisette de Bordeaux as a digestif.

  • The fragrance of anisette de Bordeaux filled the air as the bottle was opened.

  • He purchased a rare vintage of anisette de Bordeaux during his trip to France.

Synonyms

Pernod
vsanisette de Bordeaux
3 8.4

A French alcoholic drink with a strong licorice-like taste

is a regional sweet, colorless Bordeaux liqueur, not an absinthe substitute
anisette
vsanisette de Bordeaux
1 9.8

A sweet clear alcoholic drink flavored with anise seeds

is the Bordeaux-specific sweet, colorless form of the same aniseed liqueur
anis
vsanisette de Bordeaux
9.6

A sweet French drink flavored with anise, served before a meal

is sweeter, colorless, and made in Bordeaux rather than a pastis-like aperitif

Surface Forms

anisette de Bordeaux singular
anisettes de Bordeaux plural

Morphology

anisette + de + Bordeaux

The phrase is fully compositional: 'anisette' (a sweet liqueur) + 'de' ('of/from') + 'Bordeaux' (a place) yields the meaning 'anisette from Bordeaux' or a Bordeaux-style anisette. This place-of-origin construction is cross-linguistically common and therefore a B1 learner who knows the constituents would understand the MWE.

Etymology

Anisette de Bordeaux comes from two parts: anisette, a sweet drink flavored with 'anise' seeds that taste like liquorice, and Bordeaux, the French region where it was made. So the name means 'a sweet, liquorice-flavored liqueur from Bordeaux', which helps you remember what the drink tastes like and where it comes from.