vermouth

From French vermout, vermouth, from German Wermut (“wormwood”). Doublet of wormwood.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vəˈmuːθ/, /ˈvɜːməθ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /vɚˈmuθ/
• Rhymes: -uːθ

vermouth (countable and uncountable, plural vermouths)

1. A dry, or sweet apéritif wine flavored with aromatic herbs, and often used in mixed drinks.

   Hyponyms: Martini, (dated slang) French

   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.

   • 2014, Ray Foley, Bartending For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 116:

     Vermouth originated in the 18th century, when wine growers in the foothills of the French and Italian Alps developed a method of enhancing the taste of sour or uncompromising wines with the infusion of a variety of sweeteners, spices, herbs, roots, seeds, flowers, and peel.

   • 2023 July 20, Eric Asimov, “This Summer, Pause for the Vermouth Hour”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Earlier this year while in Madrid, I fell prey to what the Spanish call la hora del vermut, the vermouth hour, a break in the day for a glass, generally before eating.

2. A serving of vermouth.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:

     As we sat over our vermuths he glorified the Company’s business, and by-and-by I expressed casually my surprise at him not going out there.

• vermouth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from German Wermut.

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.mut/

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vermouth m (plural vermouths)

1. vermouth

• → English: vermouth
• → Romanian: vermut
• → Turkish: vermut

• “vermouth”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

vermouth

1. vermouth