whisky blanc

< Cdn F "white whisky"

Esp. Que.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a drinkable dilution of ethyl alcohol, distilled from cereals.

Quotations

1897

" . . . he was glad for get de chance drink some good w'sky blanc."

1918

I am glad to hear that whisky blanc does not "cut the figure" in French festivities now that it did twenty years ago. . . .

1945

Once Marius has seen . . . a man in Saint-Marc who was drunk on whiskey-blanc.

1965

He . . . took a nip of whisky blanc from a reporter to thaw out.