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rice-spirit

rice-spirit noun: an alcoholic drink distilled from fermented rice.

Noun

rice-spirit (countable and uncountable, plural rice-spirits)

  1. An alcoholic drink distilled from fermented rice.
    • "There is nothing to drink. No, wait. I have some rice-spirit. We could drink that with altar-wine."1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 261

Forms of rice-spirit

pluralrice-spirits

Questions about rice-spirit

What does rice-spirit mean?
Rice-spirit means an alcoholic drink distilled from fermented rice.
What part of speech is rice-spirit?
Rice-spirit is a noun.
What is the plural of rice-spirit?
The plural of rice-spirit is rice-spirits.

Words near rice-spirit in the dictionary

  1. rice-mills
  2. rice-paper plant
  3. rice-paper plants
  4. rice-queen
  5. rice-queens
  6. rice-spirit
  7. rice-spirits
  8. Ricean fading
  9. riceball
  10. riceballs
  11. riceberry

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