Negus

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  • noun. A beverage of wine, hot water, lemon juice, sugar, and nutmeg.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A mild warm punch of wine (properly port), made with a little lemon and not much sugar.
  • noun. The title of the kings of Abyssinia.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A beverage made of wine, water, sugar, nutmeg, and lemon juice; -- so called, it is said, from its first maker, Colonel Negus.
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  • noun. A drink of wine, lemon, sugar, nutmeg and hot water.
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  • noun. wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg
    • Word Usage
    "It was intended for that sort of negus which is offered at Christmas parties and of which ladies and children may partake with refreshment and cheerfulness."
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