absinth
/ˈæbsɪnθ/
noun
- A strong, bitter green alcoholic drink made from wormwood and other herbs, often associated with artists and writers in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Absinth has a distinctive licorice-like flavor due to the anise in it.
- Many famous painters in Paris were known to drink absinth.
- The bartender prepared an absinth by slowly dripping water over a sugar cube.