The others were ordering aperitifs of a waiter.
"Alias The Lone Wolf"
Louis Joseph Vance
In Colhassett they had only one ice-cream saloon, but in Paris they had a good many of them out-of-doors in the parks and even on the sidewalk, and there you could buy all kinds of sirups and 'what you call cordials' and aperitifs; but the two places on the whole were quite different.
"Turn About Eleanor"
Ethel M. Kelley