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单词 paxarete
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Paxareten.

Brit. /ˌpaksəˈrɛt/, /ˌpaksəˈreɪteɪ/, U.S. /ˌpæksəˈrɛt/, /ˌpæksəˈreɪdeɪ/
Forms: 1800s– Pajarete, 1800s– Paxarete, 1900s– Pascarete, 1900s– Paxarette.
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Paxarete.
Etymology: < Paxarete (now Pajarete), the name of a monastery near Jerez in Spain, where the drink was made. Compare Spanish pajarete (1792).
A mixture of fortified wine and boiled-down grape juice, formerly drunk as a sherry, now used primarily for colouring or sweetening sherry or whisky.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > fortified wine, Madeira wine, and sack > [noun] > sherry > types of sherry
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1802 J. Yznardi Let. 12 Feb. in B. Oberg Papers Thomas Jefferson (2009) XXXVI. 572 A pipe Paxarete 202 [dollars].
1816 Times 12 July 4/5 The genuine contents of the small but valuable cellar of wines of Barrington Pope Blanchford, Esq. deceased..consisting of very choice old Port, Madeira,..Paxarete, [etc.].
1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. vi. 151 When they were comfortably seated over a bottle of Paxarete.
1846 R. Ford Gatherings from Spain xiv. 152 It is of this grape that the rich and luscious sweet wine called Pajarete is made.
1920 G. Saintsbury Notes on Cellar-bk. ii. 18 Light Spanish wines..for instance, the lighter Paxarettes..which most literary people to-day associate only with Sir Telegraph in ‘Melincourt’.
1958 A. L. Simon Dict. Wines 122/1 The Pajarete or Paxarete liqueur wine..is mostly used for sweetening high-class sweet sherries.
1988 J. Read Sherry 86 An extremely sweet version of this wine, known as pajarete or paxarete, is sometimes used to enhance the flavour and the colour of cheap whiskey.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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