Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large leathern bottle or bag, used in Spain and throughout the Levant for holding wine or other liquor; a wine-skin (now the current name in English).
- noun Hence A drunkard, as if a mere wine-bottle.
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- noun obsolete A
drunkard . - noun historical A
bottle forwine made ofpigskin .
Etymologies
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Examples
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We should have drunk our wine poisoned with the villanous odor of the borachio, had not some Eastern merchants, lighting their fires in the Desert, marked the strange composition which now glitters on our sideboards, and holds the costly produce of our vines.
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D'ye think my niece will ever endure such a borachio?
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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Port and sherry of British manufacture, and the water with an incredible borachio, essence of tar; so that tea and coffee are but derisive names.
Letters from the Cape Lucie Duff Gordon 1845
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Under the deep shade of some tall trees, sheltered from the noonday sun, we lay down to rest ourselves and enjoy a most patriarchal dinner, -- some dry biscuits, a few bunches of grapes, and a little weak wine, savoring more of the borachio-skin than the vine-juice, were all we boasted; yet they were not ungrateful at such a time and place.
Charles O'Malley — Volume 1 Charles James Lever 1839
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-- We should have drunk our wine poisoned with the villanous odor of the borachio, had not some Eastern merchants, lighting their fires in the Desert, marked the strange composition which now glitters on our sideboards, and holds the costly produce of our vines.
The Fitz-Boodle Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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No sooner were these words spoken, when Panurge coming up towards her, after the ceremonial performance of a profound and humble salutation, presented her with six neat’s tongues dried in the smoke, a great butter-pot full of fresh cheese, a borachio furnished with good beverage, and a ram’s cod stored with single pence, newly coined.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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No sooner were these words spoken, when Panurge coming up towards her, after the ceremonial performance of a profound and humble salutation, presented her with six neat’s tongues dried in the smoke, a great butter-pot full of fresh cheese, a borachio furnished with good beverage, and a ram’s cod stored with single pence, newly coined.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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a great butter-pot full of fresh cheese, a borachio furnished with good beverage, and a ram's cod stored with single pence, newly coined.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
whichbe commented on the word borachio
Eponym: a drunkard. (from WordCraft)
May 20, 2008
yarb commented on the word borachio
An eponym? After whom?
May 20, 2008
chelster commented on the word borachio
After Borachio, a drunken follower of Don Juan in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. But the word had already entered English, in the leather wine bottle or bag sense, shortly before Shakespeare appropriated it for his character. — The Orthoepist
September 13, 2011