| 单词 | nants brandy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasNants brandy A brandy (occasionally also a white wine) produced in the Nantes region of France (more fully Nants brandy, Nants wine). Hence more widely: any brandy or (occasionally) white wine.Phrases such as right Nants and true Nants probably distinguish brandy or wine produced in the Nantes region from the more general use of the word. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > brandy > [noun] > types of brandy Nants1653 French brandy1655 snapdragon1676 Cognac brandy1687 guildive1698 aguardiente1752 cognac1755 Armagnac1797 Jew brandy1817 pisco1825 Cape smoke1846 marc1848 fine champagne1864 burnt brandy1880 dop1889 grape-brandy1892 grappa1893 beno1903 V.S.O.P.1907 jackass brandy1909 fine1923 Napoleon brandy1930 Remy Martin1932 framboise1933 mampoer1934 witblits1934 Metaxa1938 Soberano1963 Napoleon1968 1653 Another Great Victorie Vice-admiral Pen 5 St. Peter of Hamburgh, burden 200 tun laden with Nants Wine. 1678 T. Duffett Psyche Debauch'd v. i. 72 One gives her a Bottle of Brandy, and Sings—this. Come hither, and take this Bottle of Nantz. 1679 Elogy Old Maddam Gwinn in J. W. Draper Cent. Broadside Elegies (1928) 133/1 Whilst she liv'd true Nants was monstrous deer. 1684 M. Lister Minute 23 Dec. in R. T. Gunther Early Sci. in Oxford (1925) IV. 110 Pure Nants-Brandy. 1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse Pref. sig. A3 Drinking his Mistresses Health in Nants Brandy. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 99 His Superiors, whom nothing will go down with, under right Nantz or Rum. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xi. 69 A little silver Bottle,..which, the Rogue..declared held some of the best Nantes he had ever tasted. View more context for this quotation c1790 J. Byng Diary 7 June in Torrington Diaries (1935) II. 155 Night soon overshading us, the fat cook took..a pint bottle of nantz, which I, and the old blue..held to our mouths. 1821 W. Scott Pirate I. i. 12 The devout opinion that a cup of Geneva or Nantz was specific against all cares. 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son III. xlvii. 330 It..didn't make a man's inside waterproof, which good Nantz would. 1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke vi. 50 Let us..have a drop of the right Nants before we go. 1915 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 574/2 ‘Nants wine’ may be cleverly counterfeited with raisins and elder-berries. < as lemmas |
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