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"ref": "2010, Paul Owens, Paul Nathan, Dave Herlong, The Little Green Book of Absinthe: An Essential Companion with Lore, Trivia, and Classic and Contemporary Cocktails, New York, N.Y.: Perigee Books",
"text": "In distillation, the first few liters of absinthe to come out of the still are called the head; the last few liters are the tail. The head and tail don't have enough alcohol to keep the oils in suspension, so the absinthe comes out of the still louched.",
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"ref": "2012, Heather E. Hutsell, chapter 1, in Blood Mettle, [s.l.]: Fatty Baby Cat Publishing, page 2",
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"ref": "2015, Jason Sizemore, For Exposure: The Life and Times of a Small Press Publisher, Lexington, Ky.: Apex Publishers",
"text": "Ah, Mr. Sizemore, the green fairy is best prepared carefully and slowly to appreciate its full potential. Simply fill the fountain with iced water, place your glass of absinthe below the spigot with a single sugar cube placed over a slotted spoon and adjust the tap to your desired flow. The cold water will gradually dissolve the sugar and mix with the absinthe in a process known as louching.",
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[
"cloudiness",
"cloudiness"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(in a liquid) cloudiness due to a suspension of fine particles"
],
"raw_tags": [
"in a liquid"
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/luʃ/"
}
],
"word": "louche"
}
{
"categories": [
"French 1-syllable words",
"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French feminine nouns",
"French lemmas",
"French non-lemma forms",
"French nouns",
"French terms derived from Frankish",
"French terms derived from Old French",
"French terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"French undefined derivations",
"French verb forms",
"fr:Kitchenware"
],
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"2": "fro",
"3": "louce"
},
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"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "loce"
},
"expansion": "loce",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "frk",
"3": "*lotija",
"4": "*lōtija"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*hlōþþijō"
},
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"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "loet",
"3": "",
"4": "a tool to scrape or shovel"
},
"expansion": "Dutch loet (“a tool to scrape or shovel”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "loot"
},
"expansion": "loot",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "A dialectal (Norman-Picard) form of Old French louce, loce, from Old Frankish *lōtija, from Proto-Germanic *hlōþþijō. Cognate with Dutch loet (“a tool to scrape or shovel”). More at loot.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "louches",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "louche f (plural louches)",
"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"ladle"
],
"links": [
[
"ladle",
"ladle"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/luʃ/"
}
],
"word": "louche"
}
{
"categories": [
"French 1-syllable words",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French non-lemma forms",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"French verb forms",
"fr:Kitchenware"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "-er"
},
"expansion": "-er",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "loucher"
},
"expansion": "loucher",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Regular conjugation of -er verb loucher",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "louche",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"inflection of loucher:",
"first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive"
],
"links": [
[
"loucher",
"loucher#French"
]
],
"tags": [
"first-person",
"form-of",
"indicative",
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"inflection of loucher:",
"second-person singular imperative"
],
"links": [
[
"loucher",
"loucher#French"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/luʃ/"
}
],
"word": "louche"
}
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