liqueur

Unadapted borrowing from French liqueur. Doublet of liquor.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lɪˈkjʊə/, /lɪˈkjɔː/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /lɪˈk(j)ɝ/, /lɪˈk(j)ɔɹ/, /lɪˈkjuɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ʊə, -ɔː(ɹ)

liqueur (countable and uncountable, plural liqueurs)

1. A flavoured alcoholic beverage that is usually very sweet and contains a high percentage of alcohol.

• cordial
• ratafia

• liqueur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

liqueur (third-person singular simple present liqueurs, present participle liqueuring, simple past and past participle liqueured)

1. to flavor or treat (wine) with a liqueur
2. to top up bottles of sparkling wine with a sugar solution

   Every champagne has to be liqueured after its disgorgement, to replace the inevitable loss.

Borrowed from Latin liquor.

• IPA^(key): /li.kœʁ/

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liqueur f (plural liqueurs)

1. alcoholic liqueur
2. (literary) drinkable liquid
3. (Canada) fizzy drink, pop
4. (obsolete) liquid
5. (Louisiana) liquor

• Liqueur and liquor are false friends: French liqueur never applies to alcoholic drinks in general.
• The Quebec use of the term is frequently targeted as an anglicism (from liquor), even though the meaning ("non-alcoholic drink") is older and has little connection to either English term.

• liqueur de dosage
• liqueur de tirage

• → Greek: λικέρ (likér)
• → Romanian: lichior
• → Russian: ликёр (likjór)
  • → Kazakh: ликёр (liker)
• → Serbo-Croatian: liker / ликер

• “liqueur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

liqueur n (plural liqueururi)

1. Obsolete form of lichior.

• liqueur in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN