单词 | madeira wine |
释义 | > as lemmasMadeira wine Madeira wine n. see sense 1a. Madeira wine a. A fortified wine produced on the island of Madeira; a variety of this. Also Madeira wine.The wine is produced in dry, medium, and sweet varieties, the sweet being well known as a dessert wine. In colour Madeira characteristically has an amber tint, in shades ranging variously from light to dark. ‘Until the turn of the 18th cent., Madeira—like its cousins, Port and Sherry—was exported as an unfortified beverage wine’ (A. Lichine Encycl. Wines (1967) 337/2). It is characteristically oxidized by being matured at warm temperatures. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > fortified wine, Madeira wine, and sack > [noun] > Madeira Madeirac1595 malmsey madeira1723 London particular1807 sercial1818 Bual1882 verdelho1883 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxvii. 211 Wine of Madera and Canary, they beare the name of Ilands from whence they are brought.] c1595 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1914) 29 520 Here we use to Lade mathero wynes..and wynes of the canaryes. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. ii. 115 A cup of Medera and a cold capons legge. View more context for this quotation 1612 Bk. Customs & Valuation in A. Halyburton Ledger (1867) 335 Sackes Canareis Malagas Maderais..Teynts and Allacants. 1670 W. Hughes Compl. Vineyard (ed. 2) 66 Besides these..there are other sorts of Wines, as from Fial, Medera-wine, &c. 1676 S. Sewall Diary (1878) I. 21 I spent 18s, 6d, in Ale, 6d in Madera Wine, etc. 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour iv. iii. 35 Why, this same Madera-Wine has made me as light as a Grasshopper. 1705 London Gaz. No. 4131/4 69 Pipes and 9 Hogsheads of White Madera Wines, 13 Hogsheads of Red Ditto. 1708 S. Sewall Diary 12 Apr. (1973) I. 593 We drank a Bottle of Madera together. 1767 J. Norton Let. 10 Apr. in John Norton & Sons (1968) 25 I gave him ye hamper of Madeira wch. was put on bd. the Ship. 1787 M. Cutler Jrnl. 8 July in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 235 You can not please him more than by praising his Madeira. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII v. 57 But then they have their claret and madeira. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 262/1 The importation of Madeira wine into England in 1833 was 301,057 gallons. 1878 H. James Europeans I. ii. 75 The wine was good; it was her father's famous madeira. 1911 F. M. Farmer Catering for Special Occasions ix. 207 Bring to boiling-point and add one-fourth cup Madeira wine and one-fourth cup currant jelly. 1947 C. Amory Proper Bostonians (1948) xii. 270 Mrs. Welch's husband ranks as Boston's leading wine connoisseur and has a collection of madeiras dating to The Revolution. 1975 P. V. Price Taste of Wine iii. 28/3 For Madeira, when fermentation has taken place, some fortification with spirit is given to the wines, according to type. 1990 New Jersey Goodlife Jan.–Feb. 79/1 Among the interesting dishes are..Cantoletta all Fontenella (natural veal chop sautéed with chestnuts and immersed in Madeira wine). < as lemmas |
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