palinka

/ pəˈlɪŋkə /

noun

1. a type of apricot brandy, originating in Central and Eastern Europe

Example Sentences

Once he drank a little too much palinka, a plum brandy made in Hungary and Transylvania that is supposed to aid digestion after a meal, and he got drunk.

From Literature

Fresh pig’s blood fried with onions and served with bread makes for a breakfast to soak up the palinka.

From Reuters

Hungarians are known for “palinka”, brandy from apricots, plums, cherries, apples or pears.

From Reuters

And to ease the exhaustion from cooking, they drink shots of plum “palinka”, a fiery fruit brandy.

From Reuters

The house pálinka, Hungary’s fabulous fruit brandy, comes from Marton and Daughters, a small, celebrated distiller in a Danube-area village.

From Wall Street Journal