| 单词 | malvasia de madeira |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmalvasia de Madeira = malmsey n.; a variety of white grape, and the wine (dry and sweet) produced from it, grown widely in Iberia and Italy. Also malvasia de Madeira (cf. malmsey madeira n. at malmsey n. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > fortified wine, Madeira wine, and sack > [noun] > malmsey malvoisie1361 malmsey1407 malvasia1640 1640 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (new ed.) ii. 54 A Barbarian Man of War of Tuneis..seiz'd upon a Carmosale of Venice, at the first shot, she being loaden with Maluasia [1632 Maluasie] and Muscadine, and come from Candy. 1666 G. Torriano Proverbial Phrases 227/2 in Piazza Universale For so they call the slice bisket, which they usually eat at their Magazins, with a glass of Malvasia, or Greek wine. 1770 P. Brydone Let. 15 May in Tour Sicily & Malta (1792) ii. 18 Some of their wines are likewise much esteemed; particularly the Malvasia, well known all over Europe. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 262/1 The wine exported is Madeira wine and Malvasia de Madera. 1882 E. M. Taylor Madeira 75 The principal varieties of wine-making grapes are the following: Malvasia, Bual, Sercial [etc.]. 1895 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 627/2 We entered the shanty and drank malvasia. 1965 A. Sichel Penguin Bk. Wines iii. 257 Only about 25 per cent of the area is planted with recognizable European wine-making grapes and the products of these are named by the grape-name—Trebbiano, Malvasia, Riesling, Merlot,..etc. 1991 W. Newby Peace & War (BNC) 119 There was always a choice of tea with lemon, cool sweet moscato wine or malvasia from Torrechiara, a village in the hills. 2001 O. Clarke & M. Rand Oz Clarke's Grapes & Wines 120/1 I think the most gorgeous Malvasia I ever had was pink and frothy, heady with the scent of rose petals and hothouse grapes, and it was from northern Italy. < as lemmas |
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