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Volume 17 · 61 words · 1810 Edition

in the brandy trade, a term used by the dealers to denote a fault that is found in several parcels of French brandy, which renders them unpalatable. The French suppose that these brandies obtain the flavour which they express by this name, from seeds that grow among the vines from whence the wine of which this brandy is pressed was made.