piquette

plural piquettes

1. countableuncountableA drink of marc and water.

   She gave him a glass of piquette and a hunch of bread.

   1889, The Mechanical News, page 379

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   At dinner Pierre takes a glass of piquette, saying that they had too much wine the day before (the fête day). I look at Charles, and he has piquette too.

   1879, Phebe Earle Gibbons, French and Belgians, page 282

   The latter is usually utilized in the South of France for the production of piquettes, or the manufacture of spirit; the alcohol may be obtained by direct distillation or by the distillation of the piquettes. […] Through the same procedure the third vessel charged with the liquid from the second will yield a piquette containing 8·75 per cent. of alcohol, and the fourth vessel charged with the liquid from the third will yield a piquette containing 9·5 per cent.

   1900, L. Roos, Raymond Dubois, William Percy Wilkinson, Wine-making in Hot Climates, pages 190, 195

   With bread for his soup, a bottle of piquette on the table, onions and potatoes, he can carry on.

   1941, Life, page 22

   The men were given a daily ration of a small bottle of piquette or watered down wine with their lunch and evening meal.

   1967, Clifford McElrath, On Santa Cruz Island: The Ranching Recollections of Clifford McElrath, page 7