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• fool's rack

語源

From Hindi फूल (phūl, “flower”) and rack (“arak, a kind of liquor”), influenced by fool.

名詞

fool rack (uncountable)

1. (India, obsolete) A strong alcoholic drink made from distilled toddy or sura.
2. (India, obsolete) A strong alcoholic drink prepared like brandy, said to have been made from the stinging sea blubber to give it more potency.

参考

• pariah arrack

参照

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “fool rack”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].