piquette

From French piquette.

piquette (countable and uncountable, plural piquettes)

1. A drink of marc and water.
   • 1879, Phebe Earle Gibbons, French and Belgians, page 282:

     At dinner Pierre takes a glass of piquette, saying that they had too much wine the day before (the fête day). I look at Charles, and he has piquette too.

   • 1889, The Mechanical News, page 379:

     She gave him a glass of piquette and a hunch of bread.

   • 1900, L. Roos, Raymond Dubois, William Percy Wilkinson, Wine-making in Hot Climates, pages 190, 195:

     The latter is usually utilized in the South of France for the production of piquettes, or the manufacture of spirit; the alcohol may be obtained by direct distillation or by the distillation of the piquettes. […] Through the same procedure the third vessel charged with the liquid from the second will yield a piquette containing 8·75 per cent. of alcohol, and the fourth vessel charged with the liquid from the third will yield a piquette containing 9·5 per cent.

   • 1941, Life, page 22:

     With bread for his soup, a bottle of piquette on the table, onions and potatoes, he can carry on.

   • 1967, Clifford McElrath, On Santa Cruz Island: The Ranching Recollections of Clifford McElrath, page 7:

     The men were given a daily ration of a small bottle of piquette or watered down wine with their lunch and evening meal.

From piquer +‎ -ette.

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piquette f (plural piquettes)

1. a drink of marc and water
2. (informal) plonk (cheap wine)

• → English: piquette

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