curaçoa

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curaçoa (countable and uncountable, plural curaçoas)

  1. Dated form of curaçao.
    • 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 10, in Our Mutual Friend. [], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, [], published 1865, →OCLC, book the first (The Cup and the Lip), page 89:
      And after that, comes Mrs Veneering, in a pervadingly aquiline state of figure, and with transparent little knobs on her temper, like the little transparent knob on the bridge of her nose, ‘Worn out by worry and excitement,’ as she tells her dear Mr Twemlow, and reluctantly revived with curaçoa by the Analytical.

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