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ˈport-ˈwine
a. = port n.7 1.
[1692Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 334 An English vessell..with O Porto wine and some passengers on board.] a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Red-fustian, Clarret or red Port-Wine. 1759Mountaine in Phil. Trans. LI. 292 Six dozen of bottles of Port wine. 1836C. Redding Mod. Wines viii. 220 In 1730 good port wine was sold in England at two shillings the bottle, and white wine of Portugal at the same price. 1930H. Craddock Savoy Cocktail Bk. 192 Port Wine Sangaree..Port Wine..sugar..ice..nutmeg. 1968Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 13 Dec. 41/4 Portwine is being poured over chunks of ice.
b. attrib. and Comb., as port-wine colour, port-wine negus, port-wine stain, port-wine tint; port-wine magnolia Austral., an evergreen shrub, Michelia figo of the family Magnoliaceæ, native to temperate or tropical Asia and bearing scented reddish-brown or purple flowers; port-wine mark = nævus.
1858Trollope Three Clerks III. ii. 38 Mrs. Davis was mixing port-wine negus as fast as her hands could make it. 1872Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. Apr. 276/1 He has what is called a port-wine mark on the back of his neck. 1887J. H. Ewing Peace Egg 9 A port-wine stain on the best table-cloth. 1889Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 123 Of a light port-wine color. 1943K. Tennant Ride on Stranger viii. 86 At Lindfield there were port-wine magnolias. 1977Austral. House & Garden Jan. 17/1 Check these and spray them too if necessary: Gardenia,..Port Wine Magnolia (Michelia), Crepe Myrtle, Flowering Quince.
Hence port-ˈwiner, an habitual drinker of port; ˈport-ˈwiny a., smacking of port-wine; also port-ˈwinily adv.;
1881M. E. Braddon Asph. II. 10 Those prosy port-winey old sermons of his. 1908Daily Chron. 20 Oct. 5/5 A magnificently Georgian figure in his court-robes, with a red wig and generally ‘port-winey’ make-up. 1909R. W. Service Ballads of Cheechako (1910) 54, I smoked and sat as I marvelled at the sky's port-winey glow. 1920G. E. Buckle Life Disraeli V. ii. 67 Beauchamp..warned Disraeli that the High Church party other than ‘the old port-winers’ were holding aloof from the political contest. 1921A. Huxley Crome Yellow ii. 8 There was the dining-room, solidly, port-winily English, with its great mahogany table. 1923[see cigary a.]. 1938S. Beckett Murphy 266 ‘A proper port-winer,’ said the Coroner. ‘The afterglow is unmistakable.’ |