Piquette

At dinner Pierre takes a glass of piquette, saying that they had too much wine the day before (the fête day). I look at Charles, and he has piquette too.

She gave him a glass of piquette and a hunch of bread.

The latter is usually utilized in the South of France for the production of piquettes, or the manufacture of spirit; the alcohol may be obtained by direct distillation or by the distillation of the piquettes. […] Through the same procedure the third vessel charged with the liquid from the second will yield a piquette containing 8·75 per cent. of alcohol, and the fourth vessel charged with the liquid from the third will yield a piquette containing 9·5 per cent.

With bread for his soup, a bottle of piquette on the table, onions and potatoes, he can carry on.

The men were given a daily ration of a small bottle of piquette or watered down wine with their lunch and evening meal.