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palm-wine en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of palm wine.
   alt of palm wine
   • The most conspicuous feature of the vegetation was the abundance of fine fan-leaved palms (Borassus flabelliformis), from the leaves of which are constructed the strong and durable water-buckets in general use, and which are much superior to those formed from any other species of palm. From the same tree, palm-wine and sugar are made, and the common thatch for houses formed of the leaves lasts six or seven years without removal. 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 289:
   • The top people and elders had monopolized it, leaving the young people with two kegs of sour palm-wine. As everyone knew, Lagos palm-wine was really no palm-wine at all but water – an infinite dilution. 1963, Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease, Penguin Classics (2010), page 64: