mescal


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Synonyms for mescal

a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant)

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Nevertheless, within a week a handful of young men from the village had been contracted by Douglass and dispatched, with purses full of American bills, to Juarez and Delicias, and within a month--during which Whyle had contracted also the marriage of a local girl, Belindita, barely seventeen years old, known well in the village for her beauty, who could ride a horse like a boy and drink mescal like a man--teams began arriving with specialized supplies for the construction and furnishing of a hacienda.
[...] on he's back and they make hito so proud, They give him mescal and the barbeque meat, They tell him, 'Amigo, we can't be defeat' (BTW26).
But then, the mescal. He was always in rage, he screamed, roared, he--.
Luckily, it comes with mescal, a Mexican liquor, to wash it all down.
Like his protagonist, Lowry also had a drink problem and there is plenty of himself in the shabby diplomat, drowning himself in mescal.
Pulque is one of three archetypical "Mexican" drinks, the others being tequila and mescal. All three are made from agave, but due to its fermentation process pulque, unlike the others, cannot be exported in large quantities as it sours quickly.
He says, Para todo mal, mescal. Para todo bien, tambien.
Today's ornamental varieties often contain these compounds and are known by common names such as "pearly gates" and "heavenly blues." North American Indians used mescal beans (Sophora secundiflora) before they began to use peyote.
Sobre el suelo colocan otra serie de ofrendas, tales como: wares (cestas) con tortillas, tonare (caldo con carne sin sal), tesguino (cerveza tradicional de maiz), mescal, asi como un metate, espejo/s, bateas, sonajas.
Myself and Don Mescal wrote a song for them that's on their new album.
MESCAL, a newmiracle drug, has always had its routes into the world.
WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN: Orestes; Ultrahigh frequency; the mescal or peyote cactus; 1995.