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pontac|ˈpɒntæk|
Also 7 -aque, 7–8 -ack, 9 -ak, -acq.
[a. F. Pontac, local name.]
A sweet wine obtained from Pontac in the Basses Pyrénées, in the south of France. Also, a South African wine.
1674Blount Glossogr. To Rdr. (ed. 4) A ij b, The Vintner will furnish you with..Alicant,..Pontac, Tent. 1680A. Ratcliffe Ovid Travestie (1705) 18 Wine in abundance,—I drank none but Sack, But all you Men did ply it with Pontack. 1714Mandeville Fab. Bees (1733) I. 118 Those, that cannot purchase true hermitage or pontack, will be glad of more ordinary French claret. 1812A. Plumptre tr. Lichtenstein's Trav. S. Afr. I. 151 Du Toit gave us an excellent sort of wine, called here Pontac, a sweet deep-red wine. 1868W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting 365 An excellent omelette for breakfast, with a very fair amount of Pontac. |