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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

liqueur

/lɪˈkɝ/

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What does liqueur mean?

noun

  1. A flavored alcoholic beverage that is usually very sweet and contains a high percentage of alcohol.

verb

  1. to flavor or treat (wine) with a liqueur
  2. to top up bottles of sparkling wine with a sugar solution

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IPA pronunciation

/lɪˈkɝ/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/lɪˈk(j)ʊɹ/
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A maid, in white fluted cap, offered the callers liqueur, coffee, or chocolate, as they might desire.
Kate ChopinThe Awakening, and Selected Short StoriesProject Gutenberg ebook #160
While he sat sipping his liqueur in the tiny cabin, Dominic plied him with questions as to the whereabouts of the guardacostas.
Joseph ConradThe Mirror of the SeaProject Gutenberg ebook #1058
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The reckoning with his wife at the end of an escapade was something he counted on—like the last powerful liqueur after a long dinner.
Willa CatherMy ÁntoniaProject Gutenberg ebook #242
She served the liqueur from one of the lovely bottles and striking a match held it to his cigarette with ministering archness while he whiffed.
Thomas HardyJude the ObscureProject Gutenberg ebook #153
Did those statues, and the loose-flowing diaphonous toga and unbound hair, the cigarettes, the fiery liqueur, the deliberately sensuous music--was he to believe that they signified--?
Harold FredericThe Damnation of Theron WareProject Gutenberg ebook #133