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Southern Comfort en · PROPN

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  1. An American fruit-flavored whiskey liqueur, created in New Orleans in 1874, which is caramel in color.
    • What was a knockout, whose sweet-hot drawl hit him like Southern Comfort on an empty belly, doing digging up dirt in a greenhouse in the middle of nowhere? Business, Eric reminded himself, realizing he stared. You're here on business. 1997 January 1, Eve Gaddy, Too Close For Comfort: Lone Star Nights, BelleBooks, →ISBN, page 177:
    • I paused and let the surrounding environment soak into me like the anticipation of a strong shot off Southern Comfort. You know the way your body stops pumping blood while it waits for that warming pulse to shake through every cell[…] (Can we date this quote?), M.J. Viskocil, September, Lulu, →ISBN, page 365:
    • A word of warning: Sugar's expert terrain is like a shot of Southern Comfort — it's gulped quickly and burns on the way down. At Beech, on the other hand, the hard stuff is mellowed into a longer drink. Did I ski Big Boulder? No way. 1989 02, “Skiing”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 99:
    • In Tessa's case, both were the color of Southern Comfort. 2023 April 18, Katherine Heiny, Games and Rituals: Stories, Penguin, →ISBN:
    • On the sultry, over-amped "Leeds United," she [Amanda Palmer] intones over a slurred, high-stepping horn section: "Who needs love / When there's Southern Comfort?" On this Method-acted album, that's a rhetorical question. 2008 10, “SPIN”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 114:
    • The compliment spread through me like a shot of Southern Comfort, warming my insides. “But you don't care about that, do you?” he continued. “You only have eyes for Jack.” 2015 May 26, Mary Carter, Accidentally Engaged, Kensington Books, →ISBN:
    • [...] and suddenly they were kissing, really snogging, and her tongue slid into his mouth like a shot of Southern Comfort, and it was happening,[…] 2015 September 7, Ann Cleeves, Starlings & Other Stories, eBook Partnership, →ISBN: