spirits of wine

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   rectified ethyl alcohol

   Broaderethyl alcohol

Questions about spirits of wine

What does spirits of wine mean?

spirits of wine means "rectified ethyl alcohol".

Is spirits of wine a common word?

spirits of wine 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.