[Fr., more fully Anisette de Bordeaux, f. anis ANISE + -ette dim.] A liqueur flavored with aniseed.
1837. For. Q. Rev., XIX. 11. Oblighed me … to drink with them a glass of anisette.
1839. L. Sargent, Temp. T., 210. We have heard the inveterate sipper of anisette foretell the destruction of the guzzler of beer.
1860. All Y. Round, No. 42. 367/1. Raki, a sort of fiery oily anisette, peculiarly deleterious, is drunk with great relish by the Greeks.
