liqueur
Americannoun
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any of a class of alcoholic liquors, usually strong, sweet, and highly flavored, as Chartreuse or curaçao, generally served after dinner; cordial.
noun
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any of several highly flavoured sweetened spirits such as kirsch or cointreau, intended to be drunk after a meal
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( as modifier )
liqueur glass
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a small hollow chocolate sweet containing liqueur
Etymology
Origin of liqueur
From French, dating back to 1735–45; liquor
Example Sentences
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It isn’t quite brat—more akin to the Yellow Chartreuse liqueur.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
The WeHo bar is complete with endless photo ops, including life-size cutouts and large-scale holiday-themed portraiture of the “Obsessed” singer, as well as cocktails featuring her own liqueur company, Black Irish.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
But the average extremely online person wouldn’t know what to do with some random saint’s orders from beyond, even one best known for toplining a liqueur.
From Salon • Dec. 4, 2023
“There is a liqueur in southern Germany called gentian schnapps that contains an extract of that plant,” says Maik Behrens, a molecular biologist at the Technical University of Munich and co-author of the new study.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 12, 2023
He came back with a liqueur glass on a silver salver.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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