
When and Why Chocolate, circa 1700
Limonadier, ière. Marchand qui vend de la limonade, de la liqueur et plusieurs autres sortes de liqueur, comme eaux de cerises, verjus, groseilles, framboise, du sorbet, de l’orangeade, etc. –Antoine Furetière, Le Dictionnaire universel, 1690 Merchant who sells hard lemonade, eau-de-vie, and many other types of liquor waters, such as cherry, verjus (the “green” juice of unripened grapes), red currant, raspberry; and sorbet, hard orange-ade, etc. This word is new in our langua