Pommard (French).

Beer. This is a pun on the word pomme. The Normans called cider pommé; whence pomat, a sort of beer.

“Ils tiennent leure chaloupes … bien pourvues ou garnies de pain, de vin, de pomat, cidre, outre dʹautre boisson… .”—Cleirac: Les Us et Coutumes de la Mer, p. 127.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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