单词 | vappa |
释义 | vappan. Now rare. Flat or sour wine. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > types of wine > [noun] > flat or sour wine vappa1629 vappe1660 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 424 Whereupon it getteth the name of Vappa, and is cleane turned to bee dead or soure.] 1629 H. Burton Babel No Bethel 69 Rome or Trent hath made a dead vappa of the word of God. a1640 P. Massinger Beleeue as you List (1976) iv. i. 29 Your viper wine [is]..but vappa to the nectar of her lippe. 1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities 202 Whether Must, Wine, spirit of Wine, Vinegar, Tartar, and Vappa, be specifically distinct Bodies? 1840 T. De Quincey Style: No. II in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 394/2 But how that can be, when you recollect the philosophic vappa of Xenophon, seems to pass the deciphering power of Œdipus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < |
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