Definitions for pisco

pisco pis·co

Spelling: [pis-koh, pee-skoh; Spanish pee-skaw]
IPA: /ˈpɪs koʊ, ˈpi skoʊ; Spanish ˈpi skɔ/

Pisco is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in pisco (ciops).

Definitions for pisco

noun

  1. a brandy made in the district near Pisco, a seaport in Peru.

Origin of pisco

1840-50, Americanism; Spanish

Examples for pisco

We had only a transient view of pisco, which seemed pleasantly situated among orchards and vineyards.

They labour one day, and get drunk on pisco or the "strong water" on another.

A little way up the bay, on the mainland, is the sea-port of pisco, a neat Spanish-built place.

Some very considerable sugar plantations, and several villages, lie between Cañete and pisco.

To the south of Lima, in the Bay of pisco, are found three small islands, or rather barren rocks.

pisco is merely the key to the large interior town of Yca, which is fourteen leagues distant.

The steamer conveyed me in eighteen hours from Callao to pisco, where I hired horses and a guide.

This drink is pisco, lemon juice, and a teaspoonful of sugar.

The wine came from pisco, 'which place is famous for wine, and was contained in jars of seven or eight gallons each.

In the year 1823 a transport carrying a regiment of dragoons, three hundred and twenty strong, stranded on the coast near pisco.

Word Value for pisco
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