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frontignac, n.|frɒntɪˈnjæk|
Often attrib. or quasi-adj. Forms 7–9 frontiniac(k, (7 frantiniak, -ick, frontineacke), 8 frontigniac, 8– frontignac.
[erroneous form of next; the substitution of -ac for -an is perh. due to a reminiscence of the many southern Fr. names in -ignac.]
1. A muscat wine made at Frontignan, in the department of Hérault, France.
1629Weldon in Chambers Life Jas. I (1830) II. v. 148 His drinks..were frontiniac, canary, high country wine. 1636Davenant Witts v. i, Nothing could please your haughty Pallat but The Muskatelli, and Frantiniak Grape! 1670W. Hughes Compl. Vineyard (1683) 73 Frantinick is a very pretty pleasant Wine. 1765Brownrigg in Phil. Trans. LV. 221 Those long vials, in which Frontiniac wine is usually kept. 1826Polwhele Trad. & Recoll. II. 377 The Coniac-brandy, Claret and Frontiniac were excellent.
2. The grape from which this is made.
a1641Suckling Lett. (1646) 55 Mistresse and Woman differ no otherwise than Frontiniack and ordinary Grapes. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Exposition, Muscats (the grapes) they call Frontiniacks. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 363 The Frontiniac grape is the best. |