单词 | red port |
释义 | > as lemmasred port A type of sweet, dark red fortified wine, originally from Portugal. Hence: a drink of port; a glass used for port. Formerly also called red port, as opposed to white port (white port n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1f).Within the European Union, the term port is legally delimited to fortified wine produced in the Douro Valley in Northern Portugal; outside the European Union, it is now also used of similar fortified wines produced in other parts of the world. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > fortified wine, Madeira wine, and sack > [noun] > port porta1626 Oporto1691 port wine1691 porto1793 a1626 L. Andrewes 96 Serm. (1629) 295 A more liberall diet and proportion of port, then in strict termes is needfull. 1691 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 314 English ships that went to Bourdeaux and took in wine, and after sailed to port O Porto, and then came home, pretending it to be port. 1693 R. Ames Bacchanalian Sessions 21 But we've the best Red Port—What's that you call Red Port?—a Wine Sir comes from Portugal. 1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 263 Wines of ev'ry Sort, From potent Cyprus down to humble Port. 1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 23 It was his constant custom to smoak tobacco, drink red-port. 1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford I. iv. 79 I doesn't care if I sports you a glass of port. 1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) at Red Port The generation which is passing away, and their predecessors, always spoke of port wine as red port. 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 937 Table glass services... 12 Sherries... 12 Ports... 12 Clarets [etc.]. 1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock iii. i. 98 Give me another port. 1991 S. Mitchell Parables & Portraits 57 You sit in my back yard on a perfect day like today, with..a bottle of a nice Californian port. < as lemmas |
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