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Sangria

3 stages from Spanish to English.

Today it means a Spanish drink made from red wine mixed with chopped fruit and a sweetener
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Stage 1 of 3
sangre
Spanish · medieval
"blood"
blood, describing the drink's deep red color from red wine
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Stage 2 of 3
sangria
Spanish · 1700s
"a wine-based fruit punch"
settled as the Spanish word for the wine-based fruit punch
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Stage 3 of 3
sangria
English · 1961
"a Spanish wine-based fruit punch"
adopted directly as the drink spread internationally
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