eau de vie

1. 1.

   strong coarse brandy

   Broaderbrandy

Questions about eau de vie

What does eau de vie mean?

eau de vie means "strong coarse brandy".

Is eau de vie a common word?

eau de vie is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.