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Lisbon|ˈlɪzbən|
The name of the capital of Portugal. [= Pg. Lisboa.] Hence: a. A white wine produced in the province of Estremadura in Portugal and imported from Lisbon; also Lisbon wine. †b. A kind of soft sugar. c. A kind of lemon.
Lisbon cut, a kind of brilliant cut, the same as ‘double brilliant’ (1874 Knight Dict. Mech. 384/2). Lisbon diet-drink (see quot. 1854–67 s.v. diet-drink).
1767H. Glasse Cookery 368 Take one pound of the best Lisbon sugar. 1767H. Kelly Babler No. 41 I. 173 A Vintner who owed me a hundred pounds for some Lisbons (for you must know I am a wine-merchant). 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 42 Put to it a glass of Lisbon wine. 1799M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (ed. 4) III. 125 A little Lisbon sugar may be added to this compound of sugar and milk. 1818Todd, Lisbon. 1. A kind of white wine. 2. A kind of soft sugar. 1897B. Harraden Hilda Strafford 133 Robert went to a lemon-nursery and bought 500 Lisbons, budded on the sour root. |