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Ginger ale   /dʒˈɪndʒər eɪl/   Listen
noun
Ginger  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Zingiber officinale.
2.
The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine.
Ginger ale
(a)
a soft drink flavored with ginger and carbonated.
(a)
See ginger beer, below.
Ginger beer or Ginger ale, a mild beer impregnated with ginger.
Ginger cordial, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy.
Ginger pop. See Ginger ale (above).
Ginger wine, wine impregnated with ginger.
Wild ginger (Bot.), an American herb (Asarum Canadense) with two reniform leaves and a long, cordlike rootstock which has a strong taste of ginger.






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"Ginger ale" Quotes from Famous Books



... of tennis courts and a golf links, but although it was tea-time, not a soul was present. Having unlocked the door, my host suggested refreshment and I consented to partake of a glass of sherry and a biscuit. But these, it seemed, were not to be had; so over pegs of ginger ale, found in an ice-chest, we sat for a time ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... delight. "Can't you see Matt?" he cried hilariously. "Having supper with a massive actress!" He slapped his thighs delightedly. "Matt swilling ginger ale and saying, 'You're 's' dev'lish fine womansh.' ... No, don't start scrapping, Matt; I've just put on a clean collar ... and it's got to last.... All ...
— The Long Trick • Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie

... have any pastry, and by that is meant pie, cakes or cookies; no candies of any kind; no ice cream or ice cream sodas, no sarsaparilla or ginger ale, no liquor, no smoking, no cigarettes. You are not to take any ...
— The Art of Stage Dancing - The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession • Ned Wayburn

... demanded, holding it up. "Cheers but doesn't inebriate; not a headache in a barrel; ginger ale to the gingery! 'A quart of ale is a dish for a king,'" he said, holding up a glass. ...
— Where There's A Will • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... houses down, still putting up wires when the crowd came shouting back, sticky with cheap trust-made candy and black with East Side chocolate. We opened the ginger ale and forced ourselves to drink it so as to excite no suspicion, then a few minutes later descended the stairs of the tenement, ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes - Detective Stories • Various

... he opens wine for his friends now and then, drinking ginger ale, or something of that sort, while they are surrounding fizz, for which he settles. And he is ...
— Frank Merriwell at Yale • Burt L. Standish

... that here. This club will go on. But we won't come here. We won't want to sit around a table, like this, and drink ginger ale and sarsaparilla; and even if we do, the talk won't be so good. The thing that makes me downcast is not that liquor is going, but that we are really ...
— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street

... the snow, peering round the dark corner) he did not dare. He tried to be tactful. When he had returned to the front hall he coaxed the boys, "Say, if any of you fellows are thirsty, there's some dandy ginger ale." ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis

... relief," he added, turning to Granet. "It may not affect us quite so much, but personally I believe that the whole world is happier and better when champagne is cheap. It is the bottled gaiety of the nation. A nation of ginger ale drinkers would be doomed before they reached the second generation. 1900 Pommery, this, Ronnie, and I drink your health. If I may be allowed one moment's sentiment," he added, raising his glass, ...
— The Kingdom of the Blind • E. Phillips Oppenheim



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