The liquor called piquette, which is manufactured by our farmers, supplies advantageously the place of wine, serving as a tonic, and at the same time quenching thirst. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
In the future, "there may be less Languedoc," a region that, while it produces fine vintages, was long infamous for its "piquette," or biting wine. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
I fancy his piquette, as they call the ordinary white wine of the country, had been too much for him. From Wordnik.com. [Chateau and Country Life in France] Reference
Madame also is not a “bird with a long bill;” the dinner, including piquette, alias vin ordinaire, coffee, and the petit verre, costs five francs to the stranger, and one franc less pays the déjeuner a la fourchette — most men here eat two dinners. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
These considerations point out in the strongest manner the poverty of this royal people, of whom two-thirds, if not three-fourths, were reduced to live on fish and cheese, and drink piquette, when the expense of the table of Vitellius amounted, in a single year, to 175 millions of. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827] Reference
We will supply you an omelette and piquette, and send you back sobered and friarly -- to Caen for Paris at sunset. '. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
You will test the truth of that after your omelette and piquette, and marvel at the quitting of your line of route for Paris. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
Madame also is not a "bird with a long bill;" the dinner, including piquette, alias vin ordinaire, coffee, and the petit verre, costs five francs to the stranger, and one franc less pays the déjeuner a la fourchette -- most men here eat two dinners. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1] Reference
When the piquette is to be prepared for use, the head is taken out of the cask, and water is thrown upon the mash until the whole mass is moistened with it, and the water stands upon the top; fermentation soon takes place, as becomes evident by the light foam which arises; it is completed by the end of the fourth or fifth day; from this time the liquor may be drawn off for daily use -- the place of the portion removed being supplied by an equal quantity of water thrown in upon the top of the mash. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
"As the mash of white grapes cannot be made to ferment with the juice, this last is separated and put into casks to ferment by itself, and the piquette is then made by adding to the mash the necessary quantity of water. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
Jupiter played piquette with Mercury. From Wordnik.com. [Ixion In Heaven] Reference
Never Argenteuil piquette. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference
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