orgeat
English
Etymology
From French orge (“barley”), from Latin hordeum.
Noun
orgeat (plural orgeats)
- A sweet syrup made from sugar and almonds (or originally barley) and rose water or orange flower water.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “orgeat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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French
Etymology
From orge + -at, orge from Latin hordeum (“barley”). Orgeat was originally a barley derivative. Cf. Spanish horchata.
Pronunciation
Noun
orgeat m (plural orgeats)
- orgeat
- a drink made of orgeat syrup, diluted with water
- Synonym: sirop d’orgeat
Further reading
- “orgeat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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