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  • Cocktail
    History
    Flaming cocktails.
    The earliest known printed use of the word ocktail was in The Farmer Cabinet, April 28, 1803:
    rank a glass of cocktail excellent for the head . . . Call at the Doct. found Burnham he looked very wise drank another glass of cocktail.
    The earliest definition of "cocktail" was in the May 13, 1806, edition of the Balance and Columbian Repository, a publication in Hudson, New York, in which an answer was provided to the question, "What is a cocktail?"


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