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Middle English
- lycour, licowre, liquour, licur, lycur, lijkour, lykour, licor, lecour, liquore, lycowr
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French licour, from Latin liquor (“fluidity; a liquid”).
Pronunciation
Noun
licour (plural licours)
- liquid (flowing substance)
- juice, blood (or other natural liquid)
1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published , →OCLC, folio 2, recto:Whan that Auerill wt his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath ꝑced to the roote / And bathed euery veyne in swich lycour / Of which v̄tu engendred is the flour […]- When that April, with its sweet showers / Has pierced March's drought to the root / And bathed every vein in fluid such that / with its power, the flower is made
- A beverage or drink; a liquid for consumption.
- (cooking) Liquid for boiling in.
- (rare) spices, seasonings
- (rare) fluidity, liquidity
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Old French
Etymology
From Latin liquor (“fluidity; a liquid”).
Noun
licour oblique singular, f (oblique plural licours, nominative singular licour, nominative plural licours)
- liquid
- alcoholic drink; liquor
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