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Definition of Samshoo
1. n. A spirituous liquor distilled by the Chinese from the yeasty liquor in which boiled rice has fermented under pressure.
Definition of Samshoo
1. a Chinese alcoholic drink [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Samshoo
Literary usage of Samshoo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From Calcutta to Pekin: Being Notes Taken from the Journal of an Officer by John Hart Dunne (1861)
"The room was beautifully lighted, and the whole thing was got up with much good
taste, and in the most correct Chinese manner, chopsticks, samshoo, ..."
2. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"The purchase, sale, storage, conveyance and carrying in the above-mentioned zone
of alcohol, alcoholic liquors and wines, exclusive of samshoo, ..."
3. Reports of Decisions Rendered by the Supreme Court of the Hawaiian Islands by Hawaii Supreme Court, Hawaii, Supreme Court (1890)
"... told defendant, Ah Gock, he would cart them to defendant's store and open them
there; on some of the cases being opened a quantity of samshoo was found; ..."
4. From Calcutta to Pekin: Being Notes Taken from the Journal of an Officer by John Hart Dunne (1861)
"The room was beautifully lighted, and the whole thing was got up with much good
taste, and in the most correct Chinese manner, chopsticks, samshoo, ..."
5. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"The purchase, sale, storage, conveyance and carrying in the above-mentioned zone
of alcohol, alcoholic liquors and wines, exclusive of samshoo, ..."
6. Reports of Decisions Rendered by the Supreme Court of the Hawaiian Islands by Hawaii Supreme Court, Hawaii, Supreme Court (1890)
"... told defendant, Ah Gock, he would cart them to defendant's store and open them
there; on some of the cases being opened a quantity of samshoo was found; ..."
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