Lemonade
[lemə'neɪd] or [,lɛmə'ned]
Definition
(n.) A beverage consisting of lemon juice mixed with water and sweetened.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
If you drink lemonade in a dream, you will concur with others in signifying some entertainment as a niggardly device to raise funds for the personal enjoyment of others at your expense.
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Examples
- Then do the swains appear with tea, with lemonade, with sandwiches, with homage. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Every Tuesday evening there was lemonade and a mixed biscuit for all who chose to partake of those refreshments. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Swallow this glass of lemonade! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Mine are spoiled with lemonade, and I can't get any new ones, so I shall have to go without, said Jo, who never troubled herself much about dress. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The rise of water in the piston tube is similar to the raising of lemonade through a straw (Section 77). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Two table-spoonfuls to a tumbler of cold water will make an excellent drink as refreshing as the best lemonade. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- This is what happens when we take lemonade through a straw. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The two doctors were for keeping him on gruel, lemonade, barley-water, and so on. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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