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Absinth


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Absinthe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Absinthe was distilled from an alcoholic steep of herbs.
  • (2) Hallucinations induced by absinthe, the popular liqueur of the period, may explain particular canvases but not the majority of 'high yellow' paintings.
  • (3) Through an absinthe haze, he insists that he is not part of the massacre, not party to the hate.
  • (4) There are also implications for the illness of Vincent van Gogh and the once popular, but now banned liqueur, called absinthe.
  • (5) James Joyce liked whiskey and Oscar Wilde quaffed absinthe, neither of which I would serve to myself in the bath unless I were reading Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (and we all know how that ends).
  • (6) But the artist admitted to episodes of heavy drinking that were amply confirmed by colleagues and there is good evidence to indicate that addiction to absinthe exacerbated his illness.
  • (7) And we'll live on ice cream and blueberry truffles and pancakes dripping with molasses, washed down with tequila slammers and absinthe.
  • (8) (Midlake band members also own the Paschall speakeasy on the square and sometimes wield spoons and sugarcubes themselves for the absinthe preparation.)
  • (9) Just as the British Romantic artist and poet William Blake saw spirits and portrayed them, the late 19th-century symbolist Munch, abetted by loneliness, absinthe, magical experiments and by the spiritualist Christianity of his childhood, could slip into hallucinations.
  • (10) And all forms of alcohol, including absinthe, and vodka bongs.
  • (11) Camphor, alpha-pinene (the major component of turpentine), and thujone (a constituent in the liqueur called absinthe) produced an increase in porphyrin production in primary cultures of chick embryo liver cells.
  • (12) Yet upstairs at Andy’s is Paschall , a speakeasy whose absinthe glasses, antiques and bookcases are more Left Bank than Texas.
  • (13) His first painting submitted to the Paris Salon – and rejected – was of an absinthe drinker."
  • (14) If anything, Ronson's brand of creative collaboration recalls the absinthe-soaked salons of 1920s Paris – a cultural meeting point where artists can come and share ideas, "but," says Ronson in his dry mid-Atlantic drawl, "with less alcoholism".
  • (15) Modigliani's Reclining Nude fetches second-highest ever art auction price Read more Amedeo Modigliani was high on hashish, wrecked by absinthe, and desperately poor when he painted this hymn to lust in 1917-18.
  • (16) You expect, at a party hosted by the Erotic Review at which there is nothing to drink but absinthe, to end up redefining, with disturbing new nuances, the words 'guilt' and 'hangover'.
  • (17) Eight weeks later, on 23 December, the partnership came to a violent end when the pair quarrelled violently over, it is believed, Van Gogh spending the meagre household budget on prostitutes, and his refusal to stop drinking absinthe.
  • (18) The new streets came with trees and broad pavements along which café terraces sprang up, soon to be filled with artists and artisans enjoying “absinthe hour”.
  • (19) Bowl food is considered crass, though very much encouraged if you have an absinthe bar, or sooner or later all dignity will be gone.
  • (20) As well as 100 classic cocktails, listed alphabetically from an absinthe frappe to a zombie (all for under $14), it serves craft punches by the bowl for parties of four to six and small plates to soak up the alcohol.

Absinthiate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To impregnate with wormwood.

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