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the green fairy that fueled a century of artists and panicked an entire continent.
means A potent, anise-flavored green spirit distilled with wormwood and other botanicals, historically blamed for madness and once widely banned.
from From French 'absinthe,' borrowed from Latin 'absinthium,' meaning wormwood — the bitter herb at the drink's heart. The Latin in turn came from Greek 'apsinthion,' a word of uncertain, possibly pre-Greek origin. So the name has always meant the plant itself: a bitterness so famous that the Book of Revelation names a star 'Wormwood' that poisons the waters. The 'green fairy' came later; the bitter herb was there from the start.
- banned for
- Nearly a century across Europe and America.
- the louche
- Turns milky-cloudy when water hits it.
- wormwood myth
- Thujone blamed for madness, mostly tiny amounts.
- famous fans
- Van Gogh, Hemingway, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec.
- proof
- Often 130 to 150, brutally strong.
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