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liquorice [lik-uh-rish, lik-rish, lik-er-is] Examples noun
Examples from the Web for liquorice Historical Examples of liquorice
No word had been spoken by Mr. Zancig after my wife had whispered the word “Liquorice.”
W. W. Baggally
But the husbandman said, with a sour look, “It’s like liquorice syrup.”
Gustave Flaubert
Saffron and liquorice are in this case more hurtful than useful.
The Natural History of Cage Birds
J. M. Bechstein
From extract of liquorice and gum Arabic, of each 11⁄2 oz.; sugar, 17 oz.
Cooley’s Practical Receipts, Volume II
Arnold Cooley
Myrrh mixture is sometimes substituted for decoction of liquorice.
Cooley’s Practical Receipts, Volume II
Arnold Cooley
British Dictionary definitions for liquorice liquorice US and Canadian licorice noun
- a perennial Mediterranean leguminous shrub, Glycyrrhiza glabra, having spikes of pale blue flowers and flat red-brown pods
- the dried root of this plant, used as a laxative and in confectionery
- a sweet having a liquorice flavour
Word Origin for liquorice C13: via Anglo-Norman and Old French from Late Latin liquirītia, from Latin glycyrrhīza, from Greek glukurrhiza, from glukus sweet + rhiza root Word Origin and History for liquorice n.
chiefly British alternative spelling of licorice.