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单词 mavrodaphne
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mavrodaphnen.

Brit. /ˌmavrə(ʊ)ˈdafni/, U.S. /ˌmævrəˈdæfni/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek μαυροδάϕνη.
Etymology: < modern Greek μαυροδάϕνη < Hellenistic Greek μαῦρος black, dark (see Moor n.2) + ancient Greek δάϕνη laurel (see Daphne n.).
A sweet, deep red dessert wine produced in Greece; the grape from which this is made.
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1882 Times 27 Jan. 8/1 The black wine called Mavrodaphne turns out about 200,000 gallons. It contains a large proportion of tannin, and has so high a colour that it may be employed to colour other wines.
1919 ‘G. Thorne’ Doris Moore xviii. 262 He also was sensible of a rising excitement and disturbance of the nerves, which he fought against. An excellent supper and a cup of ‘Mavrodaphne’ from a great wine skin soothed him.
1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. ii. 52 Neither the mixture of wines, nor the Chartreuse, nor the Mavrodaphne Trifle..explains the distress of that hag-ridden night.
1958 R. Liddell Morea ii. ii. 52 The sweet wine, Mavrodaphne..reminds me too often of the Looking-glass precept: ‘Come fill up your glasses with treacle and ink.’
2002 J. Eugenides Middlesex iii. 269 She picked at her whitefish and drank her glass of Mavrodaphne.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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