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Definition of Pisco
1. Noun. A liquor distilled from grapes (a brandy) made in wine-producing regions of Peru and Chile. It is the most widely consumed spirit in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pisco
1. a Peruvian brandy [n -COS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pisco
Literary usage of Pisco
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Narrative of Voyages and Commercial Enterprises by Richard Jeffry Cleveland (1850)
"The haciendas, or farms, in the vicinity of pisco, are very productive ; and
their produce, brandy and wine, with which Lima, and the whole coast as far as ..."
2. Three Years in the Pacific: Including Notices of Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Peru by William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger (1834)
"ON the 29th of September 1832, we anchored opposite to pisco, about two miles
... Some hundred and fifty years since, pisco stood where the sea now breaks ..."
3. Underground: Or, Life Below the Surface. Incidents and Accidents Beyond the by Thomas Wallace Knox (1876)
"XVIII. UNDERGROUND IN SAN FRANCISCO. CHINESE OPIUM DENS. — pisco. — EXPERIMENTS
IN LIQUORS. — SATURDAY NIGHT AMONG THE CHINESE. ..."
4. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South by William Bennet Stevenson (1825)
"DURING my residence in Lima, I availed myself of an invitation to visit the city
of pisco, about fifty leagues to the southward. ..."
5. South America Pilot: Including Magellan Strait, the Falkland and Galapagos by Great Britain Hydrographic Office (1860)
"Refreshments may be obtained on reasonable terms : wood is scarce; excellent
water may be had at the head of pisco bay, under the cluster of trees, ..."
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