单词 | californian sherry |
释义 | > as lemmasCalifornian sherry a. Originally, the still white wine made near Xeres (now Jerez de la Frontera, a town in Andalusia, near Cadiz); in modern use, extended to a class of Spanish fortified white wines of similar character, and (usually with prefixed word, as Californian sherry, Cape sherry) to wines made elsewhere in imitation of Spanish sherry. Also, a wine of this kind. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > Spanish wines > [noun] Alicantc1500 tent1542 hollock1576 tinto1599 Malaga1608 sherry1608 Peter-see-me1617 arrope1622 steelback1633 Peter1679 mountain wine1700 mountain Malaga1705 mountain1710 benecarlo1734 Pedro Ximenez1801 Algarbe1823 Valdepeñas1832 Rioja1863 Tarragona1888 margarita1903 rosado1956 Albariño1972 Spanish1977 cava1978 Tempranillo1989 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > fortified wine, Madeira wine, and sack > [noun] > sherry sherris1600 sherry1608 Bristol milk1644 Xeres winea1661 1608 T. Middleton Mad World, my Masters v. sig. H Some Shirry for my Lords players there. 1617 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 224 One other rundlett of shery. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre v. iv. 80 in Wks. II Cok. Sack? you said but ee'n now it should be Sherry. Pvp. Io: Why so it is; sherry, sherry, sherry. 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 141 Those kinds that our merchants carry over are those onely that grow upon the sea-side, as Malagas, sheries, tents. 1669 W. Charleton Mysterie of Vintners in Two Disc. 196 They sell decayed Xeres, vulgarly Sherry, for Lusenna wine. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 35 Excellent Wines, especially red Muscatels (which we call Luke Sherry). a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 560 He drunk a little tea and some sherry. 1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 331 Some Sherree. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 291 Waiters..are placing decanters of Sherry down the tables. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxviii. 349 Most celebrated growths of ports, sherries, and claret wines. 1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South II. x. 125 Some rare old sherry. 1897 ‘H. S. Merriman’ In Kedar's Tents xiii. 145 The Colonel had an English friend who spoke so—one engaged in the sherry in Xeres. 1958 A. L. Simon Dict. Wines 146/1 Sherry is made from the best wine of each vintage, to which some Brandy is added, after which it is kept for many years with the best wine of other vintages. 1967 Times 1 Aug. 6/5 ‘Sherry’ means a wine coming from the Jerez district of Spain. The Court, giving judgment,..decided that it would be unjust now to restrain Vine Products Ltd...from using the expressions ‘British sherry’, ‘English sherry’, ‘Cyprus sherry’, ‘South African sherry’, and ‘Australian sherry’, used for certain wines in England. < as lemmas |
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