COGNAC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cognac mean? 

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

1. high quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COGNAC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

brandy (distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice)

 Context examples 

At the time that the giant dinosaur would have lived, the area — located near the town of Cognac — would have been a marshland.

(140 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur’s Huge Bone Found in Southwest France, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Not one of them but bore its two ankers of the right French cognac, or its bale of silk of Lyons and lace of Valenciennes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He drew some cognac from the cask into a tin cannikin.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The pirates were in possession of the house and stores: there was the cask of cognac, there were the pork and bread, as before, and what tenfold increased my horror, not a sign of any prisoner.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Hunter brought the boat round under the stern-port, and Joyce and I set to work loading her with powder tins, muskets, bags of biscuits, kegs of pork, a cask of cognac, and my invaluable medicine chest.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)