verjuice
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
French verjus, from Middle French vertjus (“green juice”).
Noun[edit]
verjuice (usually uncountable, plural verjuices)
- A very acidic juice made by pressing unripe grapes.
- Francis Bacon
- 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.
- Francis Bacon
