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pisco

pisco noun: a liquor distilled from grapes (a brandy) made in wine-producing regions of Peru and Chile. It is the most widely consumed spirit in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

Noun (1)

pisco (countable and uncountable, plural piscos)

  1. A liquor distilled from grapes (a brandy) made in wine-producing regions of Peru and Chile. It is the most widely consumed spirit in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

Noun (2) capitalized: Pisco

Pisco (uncountable)

  1. A kind of brandy produced in Peru and Chile.
    • The casks of Pisco were kept down the after-hatchway, which, for this reason, was secured with bar and padlock.1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC

Forms of pisco

pluralpiscos

Origin of pisco

Borrowed from Spanish pisco, from the name of the city Pisco, from Quechua pishku, pisqu.

Words formed from pisco

Phrases with pisco

Questions about pisco

What does pisco mean?
Pisco means a liquor distilled from grapes (a brandy) made in wine-producing regions of Peru and Chile. It is the most widely consumed spirit in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.
What part of speech is pisco?
Pisco is a noun.
What is the plural of pisco?
The plural of pisco is piscos.

Words near pisco in the dictionary

  1. Piscitellis
  2. piscivore
  3. piscivores
  4. piscivorous
  5. piscivory
  6. pisco
  7. pisco sour
  8. pisco sours
  9. piscola
  10. piscolas
  11. Piscopo

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