The Cocktail thread

COCKTAIL/S

noun

1. 1. = an alcoholic drink consisting of a spirit or spirits mixed with other ingredients, such as fruit juice or cream.
   "a cocktail bar"
   
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2. 2 = a dish consisting of small pieces of food, typically served cold as a starter.
   "we began with prawn and avocado cocktail"

 

The Oxford English Dictionary affirms the original use of 'cocktail' was to describe a horse with a tail like a cock's - that is to say, a docked tail, which stuck up, rather than hung down. That came to mean a racehorse that was mixed - not thoroughbred.

Cocktail - Wikipedia

 

Interesting find. xxx

 

The "Indictment"; a White Russian beneath a thin orange skin with a fake gold-leaf garnish.