slang. Any of various substances used to ‘doctor’, improve, or adulterate food or drink, esp. in order to pass it off as a superior product; a drink…
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释义 | the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > fortified wine, Madeira wine, and sack > [noun] > sherry > types of sherry (18) doctor1770 slang. Any of various substances used to ‘doctor’, improve, or adulterate food or drink, esp. in order to pass it off as a superior product; a drink… antimonial wine1771 Containing antimony in combination; as in the names of many minerals, e.g. antimonial arsenic, copper, nickel, ochre. antimonial wine n. sherry… Montilla1793 A fortified or unfortified wine similar to sherry, produced in the area around Montilla in Spain. Paxarete1802 A mixture of fortified wine and boiled-down grape juice, formerly drunk as a sherry, now used primarily for colouring or sweetening sherry or whisky. pale sherry1803 any of various light-coloured, dry sherries. amontillado1804 Formerly: †a wine of the sherry type produced in Montilla (see Montilla, n.) (obsolete). Now: a type of sherry, generally dry or medium dry in… golden sherry1830 a (typically medium-sweet) sherry with a rich yellow-brown colour. manzanilla1843 A kind of pale dry sherry produced in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, near Jerez. fino1846 A type of dry sherry; a glass of such sherry. Bristol milk1848 (a) slang. sherry (Obsolete); (b) spec. a style of medium sherry. brown sherry1849 sweet sherry. solera1851 A blend of sherry wine. Also attributive, as solera wine; solera system n. (see quot. 1965). amoroso1859 Usually with capital initial. A type of sweetened Oloroso sherry. Also (and in earliest use) as a modifier, as in Amoroso sherry. brown1862 Elliptically, for various things or parts of things of a brown colour: e.g. a brown butterfly, a brown fly used in angling; brown clothing, etc… oloroso1876 A medium dry sherry which does not develop a covering of ‘flor’ during production, used as a basis for Oloroso (sense 2) and cream sherries. Bristol cream1886 the proprietary name of a type of sherry (see quot. 1959); cf. Bristol milk n. Tio Pepe1886 The proprietary name of a dry Spanish fino sherry. A glass or drink of this. cream sherry1964 transferred. Used in the names of some cordials and liqueurs, with reference to their viscid character, or acknowledged excellence; cream of the… |
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