单词 | muscadel wine |
释义 | > as lemmasmuscadel wine 1. = muscatel n. 1. More fully muscadel wine. Now chiefly South African.The name muscadel is more commonly used in South Africa than muscatel for wines made from muscat grapes (see note at sense 2). Such wines are usually sweet white dessert wines, though they may be red and are now often fortified. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > types of wine > [noun] > wine from specific grapes > muscat muscadelc1440 muscatel1535 muscadine1541 muscat1548 muscadella1554 moscatello1607 Syracuse1768 lunel1771 muscadine1851 c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 236 (MED) Maluesye & muskadell, þase meruelyous drynkes. 1463–4 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 251 (MED) For a quarte of muskadelle, at mastyr Hoys, iiij d. 1526 Pylgrimage of Perfection (de Worde) f. 53v There groweth the myghty swete wynes as malueseys, tyeres, & muscadels. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. I8 You shal..drinke in pailes the strongest Muscadell. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. iii. 45 Hee calls for wine, a health quoth he, as if he had beene aboord carowsing to his Mates after a storme, quaft off the Muscadell, and threw the sops all in the Sextons face. View more context for this quotation 1621 P. Heylyn Microcosmus 226 The soyle is very fruitfull, especially of wines which wee call Muscadells. 1634 R. H. tr. Regim. Salerni 42 The moderate dulce or sweet wine is chosen, and not that that is exceeding dulce, as Muskadell. 1736 S.-Carolina Gaz. 24 Jan. 3/1 Fine claret and exceeding good Vin Muscat, or Muscadel and Canary Wine late imported. 1785 J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navigation p. vii Muscadell wines. 1798 S. H. Wilcocke tr. J. S. Stavorinus Voy. E.-Indies I. 545 Next to the genuine constantia, the wines called muscadel, and steen-wine are esteemed the best. 1843 Cape of Good Hope Almanac (advt.) He has always on sale..sweet white wines of very excellent quality and fine flavor, to wit: Pontac, Frontignac, Muscadel, etc. not to be equalled. 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 277/2 The wines [of Majorca] are light but excellent, especially the Muscadel and Montona. 1957 L. G. Green Beyond City Lights 126 I shall stick to the full-bodied wines, the Frontignac and Muscadel and Pontac which have made Worcester famous. 1976 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 10 Oct. (Mag.) 4/7 He's stoned out of his skull on cheap muscadel and his friends are vainly trying to drag him away from the off-sales before there's trouble. 1991 Daily Dispatch (East London, S. Afr.) 1 Mar. 10 We refer to the family of fortified wines or ‘soetes’ which include sherry, port, muscadel and hanepoot. < as lemmas |
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