DCHP-3

whisky-wine

Que.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a potent mixture of whisky-blanc, and red wine.

See: caribou(def. 4),whisky blanc

Quotations

1899
"Whiskey-wine is meat and drink to me--I was born on New Year's Day, old coffin-face. Whiskey-wine day, they ought to call it. . . "
1901
When he coolly walked into the great room, where a half-dozen of them were already assembled, drinking white "whisky-wine," he had no intention of setting himself right.