scuppernongn.
/ˈskʌpənɒŋ/ U.S.
1. A cultivated grapevine belonging to the variety of the southern muscadine, Vitis rotundifolia, so called, originally found in the region of the Scuppernong River; also, the fruit of a vine of this kind. Also attributive.
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scuppernong1811
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Chardonnay1934
Gewürztraminer1940
Cabernet1946
brunello1966
Rondinella1970
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Tokay wine1959
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1811 Raleigh (N. Carolina) Star 7 Mar. 40/2 Doctor James Mease..having seen Mr. Blount's account of the Scuppernong Grape..has requested of us to procure for him some specimens of the vine.
1829 Free Press (Tarboro, N. Carolina) 27 Feb. 3/3 Among them the Scuppernong, a native of North Carolina, growing in a swamp.
1848 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1847 470 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (30th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 54) VI Profits of a Scuppernong Vineyard.
1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 167 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI The incalculable value of the White Scuppernong to these Southern States.
1857 Harper's Mag. May 746/1 The dwellings in the Piny Woods..almost always have..a trellis supporting an extensive scuppernong grape-vine.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 215 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The Scuppernong grape does best in low lands.
1901 C. T. Mohr Plant Life Alabama 136 The scuppernong grape yields its crops year after year with regular abundance.
1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling ix. 74 The Scuppernong grapevine, a gift from his mother's kin in Carolina, was in bloom for the first time.
1944 Clarke County Democrat (Grove Hill, Alabama) 14 Dec. 1/5 The deer became entangled in a growth of scuppernong vines.
1949 B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore ii. i. 146 The poetic fable of the origin of the purple scuppernong grape in the seedling that sprouted on the edge of the pool stained with her blood from the silver arrow.
1972 J. Hewitt N.Y. Times Cook Bk. 308/1 Scuppernong Nectar South Carolina 12 pounds scuppernong grapes 1 cup white vinegar [etc.].
2. Wine made from the scuppernong grape. In full, scuppernong wine n.
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Pineau1763
Nebbiolo1788
Riesling1788
hanepoot1804
scuppernong wine1825
Sauvignon1846
Traminer1851
labrusca1854
Pinot1854
Catawba1858
Canaiolo1862
Sémillon1875
Bual1882
mavrodaphne1882
verdelho1883
Grignolino1894
aligoté1912
Chenin Blanc1913
Verdicchio1940
Cinsault1945
Sylvaner1958
Chardonnay1959
Gamza1959
Shiraz1966
cab sav1974
Lambrusco1986
Syrah1998
1825 Catawba Jrnl. (Charlotte, N. Carolina) 2 Aug. 3/1 The editor..having had a taste of the Scuppernong wine from North-Carolina, extols it in the highest terms.
1846 Spirit of Times 25 Apr. 97/1 A keg of ‘Scuppernong’ is on its way to us, having been shipped from Wilmington, N.C.
1854 H. W. Longfellow Catawba Wine in Courtship Miles Standish 186 It is not a song Of the Scuppernong From warm Carolinian valleys.
1862 ‘E. Kirke’ Among Pines xvii. 280 [He] brought forth a box of Havanas, and a decanter of Scuppernong.
1887 Cent. Mag. 34 335/2 Then she..begged Mrs. Colonel Ledbeter to give her her recipe for making the scuppernong wine she had heard so much praised.
1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind xxxviii. 685 It never occurred to him that a decent woman would drink anything stronger than scuppernong wine.
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