sherry-cobblern.
colloquial.
A cobbler made with sherry. See cobbler n. 3.
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1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. i. 22 The bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler.
1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) vii. iii. 393 The first inventors of those recondite beverages, cock-tail, stone-fence, and sherry cobbler.
1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature II. x. 312 He..suck in his drink like sherry-cobbler through a straw.
1867 ‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags I. vii. 133 Pausing to listen till he let the ice in his sherry-cobbler melt away.
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