WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as …

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WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as liquor, sometimes as rum. Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.238, University of Georgia Press
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WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as liquor, sometimes as rum. Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.238, University of Georgia Press

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