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The History of Spirits

Alcohol is believed to come from either one of two Arabic words: al-guah-haul or al-kol. When it was absorbed into the English language in the 16th century, it was actually used to describe a powder before it eventually came to mean the distilled essence of something. Does spirits have a definition as it is separate from other liquors and not just alcoholic drinks?

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