curaçoa

A form of curaçao — A liqueur made from eau de vie, sugar, and dried peel of sweet and sour oranges, naturally colorless but typically artificially colored blue.

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Meanings

nouncuraçoa (countable and uncountable, plural curaçoas)

plural curaçoas

  1. countabledateduncountableDated form of curaçao.
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    And after that, comes Mrs Veneering, in a pervadingly aquiline state of figure, and with transparent little knobs on her temper, like the little transparent knob on the bridge of her nose, ‘Worn out by worry and excitement,’ as she tells her dear Mr Twemlow, and reluctantly revived with curaçoa by the Analytical.

    1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 10, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, 1st book (The Cup and the Lip), page 89
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curaçoa. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cura%C3%A7oa

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “curaçoa,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cura%C3%A7oa.

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