BRANDY.
The word “ brandy ” puzzles some heads just now as much as the article puzzles these and other heads at times. As a matter of fact, the word is not French at all. In France the spirit is known as eau-de-vie, “ life-water,” of which Cognac is the best, as well as the best known. Brandy is a Dutch word, derived from* 1 brandewine,” meaning burnt wine, and, therefore, if any nation ought to have a monopoly of the name certainly is not the French. That monopoly is not claimed by the French themselves, but for them.
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 1000, 6 May 1909, Page 21
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96BRANDY. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 1000, 6 May 1909, Page 21
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