old-fashioned

Definitions

1. A cocktail made by muddling sugar with bitters and adding whiskey or, less commonly, brandy, served with a twist of citrus rind.
2. A type of doughnut with a cakelike consistency and a rough surface, usually made with cultured buttermilk and chemical leaven and fried at a lower temperature.

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Examples

“Old John was mixing Old Fashioneds and every now and then he would turn⟳ and stare⟳ at the record⟳ case with an expression of great loathing.”

“Bond took a shower and changed and walked down the road and had two Bourbon old-fashioneds and the Chicken Dinner at $2.80 in the air-conditioned eating house on the corner that was as typical of ‘the American way of life’ as the motel.”

“At the end⟳ of the workday, the Trumans liked to have⟳ a cocktail before dinner. Shortly after they moved into the White House, Mrs. Truman rang for the butler, Alonzo Fields, one afternoon and ordered two old-fashioneds.”

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