martini

CEFRB1

/mɑɹˈtini/

noun

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Any cocktail served in a cocktail glass, often sweet or fruity and aimed at women.
A cocktail made with gin or vodka and vermouth.

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Even at Juneau's prices, ten dollars worth of martinis is a lot of liquor to drink in an hour.
1961 Jan, Robert Silverberg, Amazing Stories, page 26, column 2
Could any tiger Drink martinis, smoke cigars, And last as we do?
c. 1963, W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden, “Symmetries & Asymmetries”, in Edward Mendelson, editor, Collected Poems, New York: Random House, published 1976, →ISBN, page 551
He drank martini, played bridge in the club, and captured treaty-port life wickedly.
1997, Caroline Courtauld, May Holdsworth, The Hong Kong Story, Oxford, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 21
I had the feeling that had he been a smoker he would have lit a cigarette at this moment. I suspected that once he had been a smoker, for he seemed as if he wished someone would offer him one. He drank martini instead.
2006, Joan [Elizabeth] Taylor, Conversations with Mr. Prain, Hoboken, N.J.: Melville House Publishing, →ISBN, page 172
After the meal, they drank martini on the rocks in the lounge.
2007, Margaret S. Ngwa, Divine Love for Cleansing, Patron Publishing House, →ISBN, page 63

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