: a dry or sweet aperitif wine flavored with aromatic herbs and often used in mixed drinks
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Your vermouth has to just be a little thing that opens it up.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2025 Look at her explain a needless branding change while adding vermouth to rye.—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025 The menu includes mussels with Calabrian chili peppers and smoked cherry tomatoes in a vermouth sauce.—Keith Pandolfi, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Dec. 2025 Add a splash of white vermouth and the gravy.—Tribune News Service, Boston Herald, 26 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for vermouth
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from French vermout, vermouth & Italian vermut, vermutte, both borrowed from German Wermut, short for Wermutwein, from Wermut "wormwood" (going back to Old High German wermuota, werimuota) + Weinwine entry 1 — more at wormwood
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