单词 | purple death |
释义 | > as lemmaspurple death purple death n. slang a cheap red wine. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > class or grade of wine > [noun] > cheap or inferior wine drum-winea1640 red ink1849 Gladstone (claret)1864 pinkie1897 dago red1906 pinard1917 ink1918 plonk1927 grocer's Graves1931 grocer's wine1931 nelly1941 Red Ned1941 vaaljapie1945 purple death1947 grocer's sherry1958 papsak2004 1947 D. M. Davin Gorse blooms Pale 199 Everyone goes for the purple death. 2006 Daily News (New Plymouth, N.Z.) (Nexis) 18 Feb. 17 The subsequent ashes [were] filtered into a bottle of Purple Death (a dodgy Hawke's Bay red from the early 1980s). < as lemmas |
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