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scuppernong U.S.|ˈskʌpənɒŋ|
[The name of a river in North Carolina.]
a. A cultivated grape-vine belonging to the variety of the southern muscadine, Vitis rotundifolia, so called, originally found in the region of the Scuppernong River; also, the fruit of a vine of this kind. Also attrib.
1811Raleigh (N. Carolina) Star 7 Mar. 40/2 Doctor James Mease..having seen Mr. Blount's account of the Scuppernong Grape..has requested of us to procure for him some specimens of the vine. 1829Free Press (Tarboro, N. Carolina) 27 Feb. 3/3 Among them the Scuppernong, a native of North Carolina, growing in a swamp. 1857Harper's Mag. May 746/1 The dwellings in the Piny Woods..almost always have..a trellis supporting an extensive scuppernong grape-vine. 1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 215 The Scuppernong grape does best in low lands. 1901C. T. Mohr Plant Life of Alabama 136 The scuppernong grape yields its crops year after year with regular abundance. 1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling ix. 74 The Scuppernong grapevine, a gift from his mother's kin in Carolina, was in bloom for the first time. 1944Clarke County Democrat (Grove Hill, Alabama) 14 Dec. 1/5 The deer became entangled in a growth of scuppernong vines. 1949B. A. Botkin Treas. S. Folklore ii. i. 146 The poetic fable of the origin of the purple scuppernong grape in the seedling that sprouted on the edge of the pool stained with her blood from the silver arrow. 1972J. Hewitt N.Y. Times Cook Bk. 308/1 Scuppernong Nectar South Carolina 12 pounds scuppernong grapes 1 cup white vinegar [etc.].
b. Wine made from the scuppernong grape. In full, scuppernong wine.
1825Catawba Jrnl. (Charlotte, N. Carolina) 2 Aug. 3/1 The editor..having had a taste of the Scuppernong wine from North-Carolina, extols it in the highest terms. 1846Spirit of Times 25 Apr. 97/1 A keg of ‘Scuppernong’ is on its way to us, having been shipped from Wilmington, N.C. 1854Longfellow Catawba Wine ii, It is not a song Of the Scuppernong From warm Carolinian valleys. 1862‘E. Kirke’ Among Pines xvii. 280 [He] brought forth a box of Havanas, and a decanter of Scuppernong. 1887Century Mag. XXXIV. 335/2 Then she..begged Mrs. Colonel Ledbeter to give her her recipe for making the scuppernong wine she had heard so much praised. 1936M. Mitchell Gone with Wind xxxviii. 685 It never occurred to him that a decent woman would drink anything stronger than scuppernong wine. |