zoedone

Noun

zoedone (uncountable)

1. A non-alcoholic beverage, apparently carbonated, manufactured for a time in the 1880s as part of the temperance movement.
   • It was proved that the liquid of which the officers had partaken was Zoedone, and not champagne. Well, after all, many other folks besides these detectives have paid their five shillings a bottle for much worse stuff than Zoedone, and have plumed themselves on the excellent quality of their...1881 February, “Temperance Notes”, in Methodist Temperance Magazine, page 95
   • The feminine element on board meantime gratefully appreciated our creature comforts—such as preserved ginger, gingerbread, hot-water bottle, jam, biscuits, and zoedone.1886, Annie Robina Butler, Glimpses of Maori Land, page 6