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muscatel, muscadel|mʌskəˈtɛl, -ˈdɛl|
Forms: α. 4–5 muskadelle, (5 -cadelle), 5–8 muscadell, (6 -cadle, 7 -cadall, 6 mosscadell), 6–7 muskadel(l, (6 -kadyll, -kedele, Sc. -kedall), 5– muscadel, 6– muscatel. β. 6 muscaldella, -tello, 7 moscadelli, muscitella, 9 moscatello.
[a. OF. muscadel, muscatel, a. Pr. *muscadel, dim. of muscat: see muscat. The β forms come from the equivalent It. moscadello, moscatello. Cf. Sp., Pg. moscatel.]
1. A strong sweet wine made from the muscat or similar grape.
The name is now applied to several wines, both white and red, made in Europe, Australia, and California.
a1400Morte Arth. 236 Malvesye and muskadelle, þase mervelyous drynkes, Raykede fulle raythely in rossete cowpes. 1464Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 251 For a quarte of muskadelle, at mastyr Hoys, iiij. d. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 53 b, There groweth the myghty swete wynes as malueseys, tyeres, & muscadels. 1535Coverdale Isa. xxvii. 2 At the same tyme shal men synge of the vynyarde of Muscatel. 1590Marlowe 2nd Pt. Tamburl. iv. iv, You shal..drinke in pailes the strongest Muscadell. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iii. ii. 174. 1634 R. H. Salernes Regim. 42 The moderate dulce or sweet wine is chosen, and not that that is exceeding dulce, as Muskadell. 1704Collect. Voy. (Churchill) III. 8/1 The Wines are..generous..: The best kind is the Muscatel. 1785J. Phillips Treat. Inland. Navig. p. vii, Muscadell wines. 1867Australasian 9 Feb. 186/1 Australian Wines in the Indian Market... The Muscatel has plenty of body. 1892E. Reeves Homeward Bound 92 S―h's Special Old Port,..at 35s. per dozen,..and their ladies' muscatel at 25s. 1958A. L. Simon Dict. Wines, Spirits, & Liqueurs 117 Muscatel, the name of a sweet fortified wine made in California. Also, in England, that of a cheap, sweet, white, sparkling wine, usually flavoured with elderberry flowers essence. 1967A. Lichine Encycl. Wines & Spirits 374/1 In California a regrettable quantity of fortified wine known as ‘Muscatel’ is sold as a substitute for spirits.
β1554–5Burgh Rec. Edin. (1871) II. 283, xvj quarts wyne muscaldella. 1605B. Jonson Volpone ii. ii, What auayles your rich man to haue his magazines stuft with Moscadelli? 1632Lithgow Trav i. 15 The..wine that is drunke in Rome, is..Albano, Muscatello, Sheranino. 1683Pepys Diary at Tangier in Life, etc. (1841) I. 430 The soldiers..had staved all his wine, not only good white-wine,..but canary and muscatella. 1833C. Redding Mod. Wines 241 Their sweet wines the Italians call Abbocati; their dry they denominate Asciati. Of the former kind are the Moscatello, Aleatico [etc.]. Ibid. 246 Moscatello wines.
2. A variety of grape (in full muscatel grape); also the vine bearing it. = muscadine 2.
1517[see malvoisie 2]. 1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Apianus, The muscadell grape. 1601Holland Pliny I. 407 As touching the Muscadell Vines, Apianæ, they tooke that name of Bees, which are so much delighted in them... These Muscadell grapes like wel and loue cold countries. 1699Evelyn Kal. Hort. (ed. 9) 174 [A catalogue of..excellent Fruit-Trees.] Vines..Muscatell, Black, White, excellent. 1763Mills Pract. Husb. IV. 371 The chasselas, otherwise called muscadel. 1851C. Redding Mod. Wines (ed. 3) 201 The large white Muscatel grape. 1854Longfellow Catawba Wine ii, The Muscadel That bask in our garden alleys. 1886Encycl. Brit. XX. 258/2 Raisins..are prepared from a variety of muscatel grape.
β1707Mortimer Husb. 556 The Muscadella..is a White Grape, not so big as the Muscadine.
3. pl. In full muscatel raisins. Raisins prepared from the muscatel grape, Malaga raisins.
1652Heylin Cosmogr. ii. 267 Cephalenia... Plentifull in..Muscadels. 1833C. Redding Mod. Wines 187 The first [gathering of Malaga grapes]..furnishes the Muscatel raisins. 1870Yeats Nat. Hist. Comm. ii. i. (1872) 181 We receive..fine Muscatels, or sun-dried raisins,..from Malaga.
†4. A variety of pear. Obs.
1555Eden Decades 198 The frute is much lyke the muscadell peares of the Ilande of Sicilie. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 77 The Muskadel peare is very delicate, especially when it is dried. 1741Compl. Fam.-Piece ii. iii. 383 And these Pears;..Jargonelle, Muscadella [etc.]. |