root beer

Definitions

1. A beverage, most often a carbonated soft drink made from a combination of vanilla, cherry tree bark, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, sassafras root bark, nutmeg, anise, and molasses, among other things.
   countable, uncountable
2. A dark reddish-brown color, like the drink.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“In 1919, when Roy Allen and Frank Wright started selling their new root beer beverage to a thirsty America, national Prohibition was taking its grip on the country. Their timing couldn't have⟳ been better. No longer able to legally drink⟳ real beer, thirsty patriots had to settle⟳ for this sweet, foamy concoction derived from roots, herbs, and berries.”

“I just keep⟳ staring at all the ink we have⟳, that wild variety of color, everything from rootbeer, midnight blue and cochineal to mauve, light⟳ doe, lilac, south sea green, maize, even pelican black, all line up in these plastic caps[…]”

“[…]most of our bucks have⟳ antlers that are varying degrees of brown, from a deep rich root beer shade to walnut to even light⟳ amber.”

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