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verˈdea
Also 8 verd(e)dea.
[a. It. verdèa (whence F. verdée, Pg. verdea), f. verde green.]
A wine made of a white grape grown in the neighbourhood of Arcetri near Florence. Also attrib.
a1625Fletcher & Mass. Elder Bro. ii. i, Say it had been at Rome, and seen the Reliques, drunk your Verdea Wine, and rid at Naples. 1656Blount Glossogr., Verdea, a kind of white Muscadine wine, made in Toscany, which is sometimes brought into England in bottles. 1719Boyer Dict. Royal i, Verdée,..Verd-dea, White-Florentine Wine. 1760Baretti Ital. Dict., Verdea, a kind of white grapes called Verdedea, of which is made a kind of wine, called also Verdedea. 1833C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines (1851) 278 The celebrated Verdea is a white wine, having a bright green tinge, grown at Arcetri; it was formerly held in high esteem. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 1285/1.
b. transf. (See quot.)
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Verdea, a white Tunisian wine. |