slivovitzes

Noun

slivovitz (countable and uncountable, plural slivovitzes)

1. A type of rakija made mostly in Eastern European countries from distilled, fermented plum juice.
   • The spirit called Sirmischer Slivovitz is met with at Trieste. It is distilled from fermented plums, and is made in Sirmia near Belgrade. This kind of spirit is also in use at Vienna and Prague.1820, W[illiam] A[rchibald] Cadell, chapter I, in A Journey in Carniola, Italy, and France, in the Years 1817, 1818, […] In Two Volumes, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co....
2. (countable) A serving of this alcoholic drink.
   • Jacek turned his back to the streetcar, from the yellow windows of the restaurant the lament of an accordion and near the door the sad figure of his neighbor Mestek in his green windbreaker with a hood sitting over a melancholy plate of kipper and a glass of stale beer, Jacek downed two double...1992, Vladimír Páral, “Part II—Games—Five”, in William Harkins, transl., Catapult: A Timetable of Rail, Sea, and Air Ways to Paradise … Translated from the Czech (A Garrigue Book), [Highland Park]...