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Catawba|kəˈtɔːbə|
[From the river Catawba in S. Carolina, U.S. (named from the Katahba Indians), where the grape was first discovered.
1775Adair Amer. Ind. 223, I begin with the Katahba, because their country is the most contiguous to Charles-Town.]
a. An American species of grape (Vitis Labrusca), which is largely cultivated in the central States of the American Union.
b. The light sparkling rich-flavoured wine made from this grape (first made c. 1830). More fully Catawba grape, Catawba wine.
1857Rep. Commiss. Patents Washington 433 The Catawba is the grape generally planted in vineyards for the production of wine. c1857Longfellow Birds of Passage, ‘Catawba Wine’, For Catawba wine Has need of no sign, No tavern-bush to proclaim it. 1864Browning Mr. Sludge, It was your own wine, sir, the good Champagne (I took it for Catawba, you're so kind). 1867Atlantic Monthly Aug. 241 Five thousand gallons of the still unvexed Catawba. |