vinasse

Borrowed from French vinasse, ultimately from Latin vīnācea.

• IPA^(key): /vɪˈnæs/

vinasse (countable and uncountable, plural vinasses)

1. (chemistry) The waste liquor remaining in the process of making beet sugar, used in the manufacture of fertiliser or potassium carbonate.

• “vinasse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• evasins, savines

Probably from Occitan vinassa, from Latin vīnācea. First attested in the mid–18th c.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /vi.nas/

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vinasse f (plural vinasses)

1. (chemistry) vinasse

   Synonym: eauvotte

2. (informal, derogatory) plonk (poor-quality, bad-tasting wine)

   Synonym: pinard

   • 2015 [2004], Stéphane Dompierre, Un petit pas pour l'homme, →ISBN, page 31:

     La vinasse rouge diluée à l'antigel commence à produire son effet, nous devenons plus entreprenants.

     The red plonk diluted with antifreeze starts producing its effect, we become more daring.

• vin

• → English: vinasse

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