Etymology

weissbier

weiss·bier
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Today it means: A Bavarian specialty beer in which a significant proportion of malted barley is replaced with malted wheat. Full definition →

German Weißbier
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  1. German · borrowed fromWeißbier
  2. English todayweissbier

Borrowed from German Weißbier, probably from weiß (“white”) + Bier (“beer”), but see the lemma.

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