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Cockburn|ˈkəʊbɜːn|
[Proper name.]
The name of a firm of London wine shippers founded in 1815, used to denote port shipped by this firm. In full Cockburn's port.
1895Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 164 Old bottled Port... Cockburn's, bottled 1891. 1920G. Saintsbury Notes Cellar-bk. iii. 37, I have done justice to Cockburn advisedly. Ibid. 38 The best rich that I ever had was..a Cockburn of '81. 1928D. L. Sayers Bellona Club iii. 25 Holding the Cockburn '86 beneath his nostrils. 1931E. Linklater Juan in Amer. iv. vii. 337 They drank an Amontillado sherry, a bottle of Château Yquem, and some very good Cockburn's port. 1964N. Freeling Double-Barrel iii. vi. 105 A cut-glass decanter..designed to make the grocer's port taste like the Cockburn twenty-seven. |