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hydromel
[ hahy-druh-mel ]
noun
- a liquor consisting of honey and water that, when fermented, becomes mead.
hydromel
/ ˈhaɪdrəʊˌmɛl /
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hydromel1
C15: from Latin, from Greek hudromeli, from hydro- + meli honey
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Example Sentences
He knows the smell of the hydromel As if two and two were five; And hides it away for a year and a day In his own hexagonal hive.
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With the leaves of the latter they make a decoction which, mixed with hydromel, is an antidote for intermittent fevers.
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The slaves carried baskets with cakes, roast meats and jars of hydromel.
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Metheglin (Welsh Meddyglyn), also called hydromel and mead, was a drink as universal as it was ancient.
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He gives a receipt—the earliest I have seen in print—for making metheglin or hydromel.
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