zoedone
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A non-alcoholic beverage, apparently carbonated, manufactured for a time in the 1880s as part of the temperance movement.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It was proved that the liquid of which the officers had partaken was Zoedone, and not champagne. Well, after all, many other folks besides these detectives have paid their five shillings a bottle for much worse stuff than Zoedone, and have plumed themselves on the excellent quality of their champagne, without being any nearer a true knowledge of what they were drinking."
- "The feminine element on board meantime gratefully appreciated our creature comforts—such as preserved ginger, gingerbread, hot-water bottle, jam, biscuits, and zoedone."
- "There was no zoedone or temperance sherry in those days, else we should have thought he might have been imbibing those enlivening drinks.[…]It really was just as like thirty-four port as zoedone is like a beaker of champagne, dry, but not too dry."