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▪ I. † ˈvernage Obs.
[a. OF. vernage, vernace, vernache, ad. It. vernaccia ‘a kind of strong wine like malmesie or muskadine, or bastard wine’ (Florio, 1598). Cf. med.L. vernagium, vernacium, vernachia.]
A strong and sweet kind of white Italian wine.
c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 563 He drinkith ypocras, clarre, and vernage Of spices hote, to encrese his corrage. 1390Gower Conf. III. 8 In stede of drinke I underfonge A thoght so swete in mi corage, That nevere Pyment ne vernage Was half so swete forto drinke. c1430Two Cookery-bks. 22 Take vernage, oþer strong wyne of þe beste þat a man may fynde [etc.]. c1460Play Sacram. 428 They faryd as dronk men of pymente or vernage. c1500Colin Blowbol's Test. 339 Malmasyes, Tires, and Rumneys,..Vernage, Cute, and Raspays also.
attrib.a1400Sqr. lowe Degre 754 Ye shall have rumney and malmesyne, Both ypocrasse, and vernage wyne.
So † vernagelle, a variety of vernage. Obs.—1
c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 118 The namys of swete wynes y wold þat ye them knewe: Vernage, vernagelle, wyne Cute, pyment.
▪ II. vernage
Sc. form of warnage Obs. |