beverage
(ˈbɛvərɪdʒ)
Forms: 3–7 beuerage, beverege, 5 beuereche, -iche, 5–7 beuurage, 7 beueridge, beurage, beuvrage, beauvrage, biverage, 7–8 beveridge, 8 beuverage, 4– beverage.
[ME. a. OF. bevrage, buverage (mod.F. breuvage), a com. Romanic formation, in Pr. beurage, Sp. bebrage, Pg. beberagem, It. beveraggio; f. the n. bevere, bevre (in OF. beivre, see bever n.) ‘drinking’ + -age: L. type *biberāticum.]
1. Drink, liquor for drinking; esp. a liquor which constitutes a common article of consumption.
| c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. B. 1433 Bryng hem now to my borde, of beuerage hem fylles. c 1400 Mandeville xii. 141 Gode Beuerage and swete and norysshynge that is made of Galamelle. 1475 Caxton Jason 52 Metes delicious and with al beuurages and drynkes sumptuous. 1611 Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 346 If from me he haue wholesome Beueridge. 1615 G. Sandys Trav. 74 Sherbet-men (who make the fore⁓said beurage). 1791 Boswell Johnson (1831) I. 297 Tea..that elegant and popular beverage. 1870 Yeats Hist. Comm. 116 Cocoa and maté, or Paraguay tea, are the beverages of South America. |
| fig. 1647 W. Browne Polex. ii. 309 The soules of the Embassadors lay..drown'd in that delicious bev'rage wherein Polexander's Eloquence had throwne them. |
2. fig. A ‘draught’ which has been brewed, and must be drunk; the bitter or sorrowful sequel of any conduct.
Cf. brew.
| 1297 R. Glouc. 26 A luþer beuerage to here bihofþe þei browe. c 1325 Coer de L. 4365 A sorye beverage ther was browen. |
† 3. a. Drinking, a drink or draught.
Obs.| 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 189 Bargeyns and beuerages · bigonne to aryse. 1628 Digby Voy. Medit. (1868) 56 New wines which were naught for beuurage. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 170 The standing Waters..yield Too large a Bev'rage to the drunken Field. |
b. = bever n. 3.
| 1577 Harrison England ii. vi. (1877) 162 We had beuerages or nuntions after dinner. |
4. spec. Various kinds of drink:
a. The liquor made by pouring water over the pressed grapes, after the wine has been drawn off.
b. West Indian term for lemonade.
c. In Devonshire, small cider.
| 1627 Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. viii. 36 The Cooper is..to..repaire the..hogsheads, etc. for wine, beare, sider, beverage, fresh water. 1705 Lond. Gaz. No. 4159/4 About 5 Tun of Beveridge at 20s. per Tun. 1721 C. King Brit. Merch. I. 7 They generally drink..a sort of Liquor they call Beuverage (which is Water pass'd thro the Husks of Grapes after the Wine is drawn off). 1796 W. Marshall W. England, Beverage, water cider, or small cider. 1834 M. Scott Cruise Midge (1859) 389 The bottle of Lemonade or Beverage as it is called in Jamaica. |
† 5. A drink, or drink-money, demanded on certain occasions, as
e.g. from one who for the first time wears a new suit of clothes, etc. Now
dial.| 1721 Bailey, To pay Beverage, to give a treat upon the first wearing of a new Suit of Cloths. 1755 Johnson, Beverage, a treat at first coming into a prison, called also garnish. 1808 Jamieson s.v., ‘She gat the beverage o' his braw new coat.’ |
6. attrib., as
beverage room, in Canada, a bar-room in which beer is served;
= beer-parlor.
| 1936 L. A. McKay in F. R. Scott & A. J. M. Smith Blasted Pine (1957) 23 ‘Taprooms’ and ‘taverns’ and ‘pubs’ are absurd; Give us..A respectable name like ‘Beverage Room’. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 July 6/4 All the hotel beverage rooms within the City of Sudbury are operating with ale and lager supplied by the local brewery. |