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单词 sherris
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sherrisn.

/ˈʃɛrɪs/
Forms: Also 1500s–1700s sherries, 1600s ceres.
Etymology: < Spanish (vino de ) Xeres wine of Xeres (see sherry n.1). The Spanish x, now coincident in sound with j/x/, was formerly pronounced /ʃ/. The name of the town appears in the 17th cent. as Sherries: e.g. 1626 R. Peeke (title) Three to One: Being an English Spanish Combat, performed..at Sherries in Spain.
archaic.
= sherry n.1 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > fortified wine, Madeira wine, and sack > [noun] > sherry
sherris1600
sherry1608
Bristol milk1644
Xeres winea1661
1540 Will of Robert Sowethewarke (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/28) f. 187v Twenty buttes of sakes of Sherries.]
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 99 The second property of your excellent sherris, is the warming of the blood..the sherris warmes it, and makes it course from the inwards to the partes extreames.
1876 R. Browning At the ‘Mermaid’ ii The sherris mantling Still about each mouth.
1884 W. Black Judith Shakespeare xxiv Lord, Jack, what a sherris that was!

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations:
sherris-sack n. ‘sack’ imported from Xeres: see sack n.3 b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > fortified wine, Madeira wine, and sack > [noun] > sack
sack1531
sherris-sack1600
sherry sack1619
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 104 A good sherris sacke hath a two fold operation in it. View more context for this quotation
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vii. 34 A pinte of very good Ceres sacke.
1876 R. Browning At the ‘Mermaid’ xviii Back then to our sherris-brewage!
sherris wine n.
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1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal clxviii Xeres..is famous for..what we call, sherries wine.
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