orange-juice

A form of orange juice — The juice of squeezed oranges; used as a beverage or in cocktails. (This entry is a translation hub.)

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Meanings

nounorange-juice (uncountable)
  1. dateduncountableDated form of orange juice.

    A Victoria spongecake held pride of place as a wedding-cake, and there were glass jugs of orange-juice and chilled China tea.

    1993, Margaret Pemberton, chapter 10, in Moonflower Madness, Sutton, London: Severn House Publishers, →ISBN, page 189
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    At ſome publick Houſes 5 Pints of Brandy, with 5 Quarts of Water, and a Pint of Limon or Orange-Juice, and Sugar, has been ſold without paying any Duty, being 2 Gallons, according to the Act.

    1736 October 12, The Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, →OCLC, page 17435, column 2

    The present practice over the Continent is to stew them [perch] in vinegar, fresh grape, orange-juice, or other sour sauce; […]

    1877, Kettner [pseudonym; Eneas Sweetland Dallas], “Perch”, in Kettner’s Book of the Table: A Manual of Cookery, Practical, Theoretical, Historical, London: Dulau and Co. […], →OCLC, page 340
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