Hamlet vocabulary

3 beverage-related (wine, spirits, other) vocab words

3 [drink] words
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wassail

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Definition:
1. a toast (beverage) at a festival
2. beverage used in (1), usually spiced wine/ale

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HAMLET The King doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels; And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out The triumph of his pledge*.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet
*pledge in this sense also means a toast
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