Aperitif-wine
a small drink of alcoholic liquor taken to stimulate the appet-te before a meal.
also called apéritif wine. a wine served as an appetizer or c-cktail.
noun
an alcoholic drink, esp a wine, drunk before a meal to whet the appet-te
n.
1894, “alcoholic drink taken before a meal to stimulate the appet-te,” from french apéritif “laxative, laxative liqueur,” literally “opening,” from latin aperitivus, from aperire “to open” (see overt). cf. middle english apertive (adj.), a medical word meaning “capable of opening or dilating” (pores, etc.), early 15c.
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