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sops-in-wine
Also 8 sopsy-wine, 9 sops of wine.
[See sop n.1 1 c. Cf. F. soupe en vin, a reddish colour; † the plant lucerne (Cotgr.).]
1. The clove-pink or gillyflower. Obs. until revived in 20th cent.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 96 Herbes, branches, and flowers for windowes and pots... Sops in wine. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. May 14 With Hawthorne buds, and swete Eglantine, And girlonds of roses and Sopps in wine. 1594Barnfield Affect. Sheph. (Arb.) 10 The Rose, and speckled flowre cald Sops in wine. 1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. i. Vocation 18 Som July-flowr, or som sweet Sops-in-wine. 1625B. Jonson Pan's Anniv., Pinks, goulands, king-cups, and sweet sops-in-wine.
1918‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 11 Mar. (1928) I. 152 There is a certain little white pink, striped with dark red, called ‘sops-in-wine’. 1972J. Metcalf Going down Slow v. 102 What a garden there was at the back of this..inn... Sops in Wine and Floramer, Widow Wail..and deep red damask roses. 1981T. McLean Medieval Eng. Gardens v. 150 Its English name, gillyflower, may be a corruption of July flower, one of its medieval names, others of which were sops-in-wine, queen of delights and..carnation.
2. A variety of apple.
1764Museum Rust. II. x. 37 An apple of very deep red, by some called sopsy-wine, quasi sopped in wine. 1860R. Hogg Fruit Manual 25 Sops in Wine... Skin crimson in the shade, stained and striped with purplish crimson next the sun. 1879Burroughs Locusts & Wild Honey 11 Bees..will suck themselves tipsy upon varieties like the sops-of-wine. |