ARMAGNAC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Armagnac mean? 

• ARMAGNAC (noun)
  The noun ARMAGNAC has 1 sense:

1. dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France

  Familiarity information: ARMAGNAC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMAGNAC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("Armagnac" is a kind of...):

brandy (distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice)

 Context examples 

He is to be marshal of the lists, with Sir William Felton and the Duc d'Armagnac.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With them also were the pick of the Gascon chivalry—the old Duc d'Armagnac, his nephew Lord d'Albret, brooding and scowling over his wrongs, the giant Oliver de Clisson, the Captal de Buch, pink of knighthood, the sprightly Sir Perducas d'Albret, the red-bearded Lord d'Esparre, and a long train of needy and grasping border nobles, with long pedigrees and short purses, who had come down from their hill-side strongholds, all hungering for the spoils and the ransoms of Spain.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Faith, John,” said the prince, “it sounds as though you were right. Ha! my grace D'Armagnac, it seems that our friends on this side will not grieve if our English champions lose the day.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Over the Tarn and the Garonne, through the vast quagmires of Armagnac, past the swift-flowing Losse, and so down the long valley of the Adour, there was many a long league to be crossed ere they could join themselves to that dark war-cloud which was drifting slowly southwards to the line of the snowy peaks, beyond which the banner of England had never yet been seen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)