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語源

From Mexican Spanish mezcal, from Nahuatl or Classical Nahuatl mexcalli (“intoxicating drink made from fermented agave juice”), perhaps from metl (“maguey (agave)”) + ixcalli (“stew”).

発音

• IPA: /mɛˈskæl/, /mɛˈskɑl/, /ˈmɛzkæl/

名詞

mescal (countable and uncountable, plural mescals)

1. A Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave.
   • 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 77:

     He thought: 900 pesos=100 bottles of whiskey=900 ditto tequila. Argal: one should drink neither tequila nor whiskey but mescal.

2. The peyote cactus.

派生語

アナグラム

• Camels, Malecs, camels, macles, mascle, scamel