Margarita

[ mahr-guh-ree-tuh ]

/ ˌmɑr gəˈri tə /

a cocktail made of tequila, lime or lemon juice, and an orange-flavored liqueur, usually served in a salt-rimmed glass.

Origin of Margarita

1960–65; < American Spanish; apparently special use of Spanish Margarita Margaret

Reading the expression on my face that must have conveyed something like “surely I can get a margarita at this place?”

Wine Snobs, There’s a Beer for You |Jordan Salcito |April 5, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
“Our margarita machine was saved, miraculously,” Delamarter said.

Small Businesses Struggle to Survive After Sandy’s Wrath |Eliza Shapiro |November 23, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Lawson serves this “pinkly foamy purée” drink in margarita glasses.

The Drink Hemingway Made Famous |Katie Workman |June 24, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
However this may have been, he arrived at last in the Gulf of Paria and proceeded to the island of Margarita.

The West Indies and the Spanish Main [1899] |James Rodway

Margarita leaned to her father a moment as if mortal sickness had seized her.

The Short Works of George Meredith |George Meredith
This idea was popularized by the edition of the Margarita Philosophica, published at Strasburg in 1508.

History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom |Andrew Dickson White
It was surely the devil himself that put into Margarita's head the quick lie which she instantaneously told.

Ramona |Helen Hunt Jackson
You are wrong; Margarita has made no complaints; on the contrary she says that you have done nothing to her.

The Memoires of Casanova, Complete |Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

margarita

/ (ˌmɑːɡəˈriːtə) /

a mixed drink consisting of tequila and lemon juice

C20: from the woman's name

Margarita

/ (ˌmɑːɡəˈriːtə) /

an island in the Caribbean, off the NE coast of Venezuela: pearl fishing. Capital: La Asunción