verjuice
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English verjous, vergeous, from Old French vertjus, verjus (French verjus), from vert + jus.
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Noun[edit]
verjuice (usually uncountable, plural verjuices)
- A very acidic juice made by pressing unripe grapes.
- 1631, [Francis Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
- In this instance, there is, upon the by, to be noted, the percolation or suing of the verjuice through the wood; for verjuice of itself would never have passed through the wood: so as, it seemeth, it must be first in a kind of vapour, before it pass.}}
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Translations[edit]
very acidic juice
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