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pisco
[ pis-koh, pee-skoh; Spanish pee-skaw ]
noun
- a brandy made in the district near Pisco, a seaport in Peru.
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Example Sentences
Lunch and a beer in the sun at Tio Bob’s is a must-do, as is a relaxing evening with a pisco sour in hand at the Portillo Bar.
The common brandy is called Aguardiente de Pisco, because it is shipped at that port.
Some very considerable sugar plantations, and several villages, lie between Cañete and Pisco.
Pisco is merely the key to the large interior town of Yca, which is fourteen leagues distant.
The steamer conveyed me in eighteen hours from Callao to Pisco, where I hired horses and a guide.
Guano is found upon the coasts of Peru, in the islands of Chinche, near Pisco, and several other places more to the south.
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