Meanings
- archaicuncountableA type of sparkling mineral water.
We supped and camped at the very edge of the cliff, quenching our thirst with two bottles of Apollinaris which were in one of the cases.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC1 more example
Neither had he then, in answer, to articulate anything but the jollity of their having found a table at a window from which, as they partook of cold beef and apollinaris [...] they could let their eyes hover tenderly on the far-off white cliffs that so often had signalled to the embarrassed English a promise of safety.
1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew
Origin
Originally ‘Apollinaris water’, from Apollinarisburg, a hill near Bonn, Germany.
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