Benedictine

Definitions

1. A monk or nun belonging to the order founded by Saint Benedict of Nursia.
2. A type of liqueur originating from the Benedictine cloister of Fécamp in France, made from cognac together with herb and spice extracts.

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Examples

“Some of her most interesting remarks on writing appear⟳ in her letters to Sister Mariella Gable, a strong-minded Minnesota Benedictine who admired O'Connor greatly. In the fifties, O'Connor tells a friend, when Sister Mariella's bishop ordered her to stop⟳ teaching Catcher in the Rye, she defied him and was banished.”

“Cripps differed from Partridge there, and proceeded to prove⟳, by personal instances, that the safest thing for a man to drink⟳ was benedictine.”

“Many liqueurs, among them chartreuse and benedictine, have⟳ long been held in great esteem as aphrodisiac aids.”

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