Lexic.us

Definition of Drinking chocolate

1. Noun. A beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drinking Chocolate

Literary usage of Drinking chocolate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes, Esq., from 1831 to 1847 by Thomas Raikes (1857)
"... the opposing General, Espartero, has some military talent, but is very dilatory in action, and sometimes passes whole days in bed drinking chocolate. ..."

2. Cocoa and Chocolate: Their History from Plantation to Consumer by Arthur William Knapp (1920)
"This paste was then made into small rolls and put in a cool place to set. Thus was produced the primitive unsweetened drinking chocolate. ..."

3. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. by James Boswell (1873)
"On that morning, Johnson came to me from Streatham, and, after drinking chocolate at General Paoli's, in South Audley Street, we proceeded to Lord ..."

4. The Journal of Home Economics by American Home Economics Association (1915)
"... told that it was essential that she should interest her pupils and she had done it and arrived at creamed cabbage from potatoes by drinking chocolate! ..."

5. Cocoa and Chocolate: A Short History of Their Production and Use by Walter Baker & Company, James McKellar Bugbee (1917)
"Thomas Gage, in his “New Survey of the \Vest Indies,” first published in 1648, interesting account of the Spanish and Indian drinking chocolate some two ..."

6. A Short History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney (1919)
"A change of great interest and importance in the habits of life came about during this period in the growing custom of drinking chocolate, coffee, and tea. ..."

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