rice-spirit

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rice-spirit (countable and uncountable, plural rice-spirits)

  1. An alcoholic drink distilled from fermented rice.
    • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 261:
      "There is nothing to drink. No, wait. I have some rice-spirit. We could drink that with altar-wine."
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