Definition of Brandy

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Brandy

A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain.

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Brandy Quotations

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles Darwin

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
Rebecca West

I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful.
Paul Gascoigne

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
Robert Hall

Continually finding excuses for taking a small glass of brandy and water.
John Leech

Brandy Translations

brandy in Afrikaans is brandewyn
brandy in Danish is cognac
brandy in Dutch is vuurwater, brandewijn, brandy
brandy in Finnish is konjakki
brandy in French is eau-de-vie, cognac
brandy in German is Branntwein
brandy in Norwegian is brennevin
brandy in Portuguese is aguardente, conhaque

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