Hollands

[ hol-uhndz ]

noun

, (used with a singular verb)

1. a gin, originally made in Holland, in which the juniper is mixed in the mash.

Hollands

/ ˈhɒləndz /

noun

1. Dutch gin, often sold in stone bottles

Word History and Origins

Origin of Hollands¹

1705–15; < Dutch hollandsch ( genever ) Dutch (gin)

Word History and Origins

Origin of Hollands¹

C18: from Dutch hollandsch genever

Example Sentences

After a hasty lunch in the dining hall, the Hollands hit Bowdoin, drop me at the airport, and set off for Williams College.

From The Daily Beast

By the time they are done, the Hollands will have covered 1,529 miles, more than half the width of the continental United States.

From The Daily Beast

There also coming into the river two Dutchmen, we sent a couple of men on board and bought three Hollands cheeses, cost 4d.

From Project Gutenberg

Cousin Flora had had the misfortune to fall in love with a man quite outside the social sphere of the Copelands and the Hollands.

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Ted was down there, and Flora Copeland, a spinster cousin of the Hollands, who for several years had lived in the house.

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It was painted with a gaudy red tulip with an appropriate verse on Hollands national posy.

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This day Hollands junck departed from Firando towardes Syam.

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