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The sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit. quotations examples
Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 7
Kipper drained his glass to the lees and seemed to become calmer.
1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X
plural of lee examples