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单词 amontillado
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amontilladon.

Brit. /əˌmɒntᵻˈlɑːdəʊ/, /əˌmɒntᵻˈjɑːdəʊ/, U.S. /əˌmɑntəˈlɑdoʊ/, /əˌmɑntəˈjɑdoʊ/
Etymology: < Spanish amontillado (1836 or earlier) < a- , prefix ( < classical Latin ad- ad- prefix) + the name of Montilla (see Montilla n.) + -ado -ate suffix2. Compare earlier Montilla n.
Formerly: †a wine of the sherry type produced in Montilla (see Montilla n.) (obsolete). Now: a type of sherry, generally dry or medium dry in flavour, which has undergone a period of biological ageing (under a layer of flor: see flor n.) followed by a period of oxidative ageing (through exposure of the liquid surface to the air), or a sherry which has been blended to resemble this. Also more fully amontillado sherry.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > fortified wine, Madeira wine, and sack > [noun] > sherry > types of sherry
doctor1770
antimonial wine1771
Montilla1793
Paxarete1802
pale sherry1803
amontillado1804
golden sherry1830
manzanilla1843
fino1846
Bristol milk1848
brown sherry1849
solera1851
amoroso1859
brown1862
oloroso1876
Bristol cream1886
Tio Pepe1886
cream sherry1964
1804 Morning Post 8 Feb. 4/2 (advt.) The Valuable Cellar..consisting of Port, Claret..Sherry, Amontillado [etc.].
1824 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts Oct. 130 The driest species of Sherry is the Amontillado.
1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines vi. 190 The wine called Amontillado is not always the product of design.
1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. ix. 325 A certain quantity of the drier Amontillado, from the hill districts of Montilla.
1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. iv. vii. 337 They drank an Amontillado sherry, a bottle of Château Yquem, and some very good Cockburn's port.
2007 Metro 4 July (London ed.) 26/3 The cheeses—Idiazabal and..manchego—slip down perfectly with some almondy amontillado.

Compounds

† As a modifier. figurative. Perhaps: refined, sophisticated. Obsolete.
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1861 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip xvii, in Cornhill Mag. Aug. 136 ‘By the housekeeper, do you mean Mrs. Baynes?’ I ask, in my amontillado manner.
1881 Manch. Guardian 13 Apr. 6/2 ‘Washington Square’..is written in the ‘amontillado manner’ which Mr. James affects.
1921 Spectator 22 Jan. 109/1 We will take as our next example of what we might call Mr. Max Beerbohm's Amontillado style ‘Hosts and Guests’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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