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rhum en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, qualifier:obsolete or archaic except Philippines) Alternative form of rum, an alcoholic beverage distilled from sugarcane, similar spirits.
    alt of rum
    • ... I went aboard the Fellowship of 100 and 70 Tuns a Flemish bottom, the Master George Luxon of Bittiford in Devonshire, several of my friends came to bid me farewell, among the rest Captain Thomas Wannerton who drank to me a pint of kill-devil alias Rhum at a draught ... 1639 September 24, John Josselyn, Journal in An Account of Two Voyages to New-England... (1673), p. 24

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Relateds

rhum agricole