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mead

Alcoholic drink made from honey and water fermented with yeast, often with added spices. It was known in ancient times and was drunk by the Greeks, Britons, and Norse.
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Here is a glass of mead from your son,' said the host.
The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context
One more round of mead or ale and the score to the last comer.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
The common drink of the Abyssins is beer and mead, which they drink to excess when they visit one another; nor can there be a greater offence against good manners than to let the guests go away sober: their liquor is always presented by a servant, who drinks first himself, and then gives the cup to the company, in the order of their quality.
A Voyage to Abyssinia by Lobo, Father View in context
 
 
 
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