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Barbados water

Barbados water noun: a cordial flavoured with orange- and lemon-peel.

Noun

Barbados water (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, historical) A cordial flavoured with orange- and lemon-peel.
    • [H]e had provided vast quantities of strong beer, flip, rumbo, and burnt brandy, with plenty of Barbadoes water for the ladies […].1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
    • Drank desperately a good deal of wine and, to crown all, half a pint of Barbados waters.1789, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 17

Questions about Barbados water

What does Barbados water mean?
Barbados water means a cordial flavoured with orange- and lemon-peel.
What part of speech is Barbados water?
Barbados water is a noun.

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