pomegranateade

English

Etymology

pomegranate +‎ -ade

Noun

pomegranateade (uncountable)

  1. (rare) A sweetened drink made from pomegranates.
    • 1919, Jesse Feiring Williams, Healthful living, page 196:
      Juicy apples, pears, lemonade, orangeade, pomegranateade, ripe peaches, etc., are pleasanter than medicines.
    • 1964, Joe Austell Small, The best of True West, page 84:
      […] we children had a platform—the “house in the coon tree," we called it—to which we ascended by the grapevine and on which we often sat reading books or playing and in season drinking (without ice, of course) pomegranateade.
    • 1987, Simon J. Bronner, Folklife Studies from the Gilded Age, page 200:
      One penny will buy a big glassful. Alongside of it comes the pink colonche or cider of the tuna; this is an exceptionally good drink. Then you can buy lemonades, limeades, orangeades, pineappleades, and sometimes a pomegranateade […]
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