liqueur

Borrowed from French liqueur.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lɪˈkjʊə/, /lɪˈkjɔː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /lɪˈkɝ/

liqueur (countable and uncountable, plural liqueurs)

1. A flavoured alcoholic beverage that is usually very sweet and contains a high percentage of alcohol. Cordials are a type of liqueur manufactured using the infusion process as opposed to the essence and distillation processes.

• cordial
• ratafia

• liqueur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

liqueur (third-person singular simple present liqueurs, present participle liqueuring, simple past and past participle liqueured)

1. to flavor or treat (wine) with a liqueur
2. to top up bottles of sparkling wine with a sugar solution

   Every champagne has to be liqueured after its disgorgement, to replace the inevitable loss.

Borrowed from Latin liquor.

• IPA^(key): /li.kœʁ/

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liqueur f (plural liqueurs)

1. alcoholic liqueur
2. (literary) drinkable liquid
3. (Canada) fizzy drink, pop
4. (obsolete) liquid
5. (Louisiana) liquor

• liqueur de dosage
• liqueur de tirage

• Liqueur and liquor are false friends: French liqueur never applies to alcoholic drinks in general.
• The Quebec use of the term is frequently targeted as an anglicism (from liquor), even though the meaning ("non-alcoholic drink") is older and has little connection to either English term.

• “liqueur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).