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单词 muscatel
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Definition of muscatel in English:

muscatel

(also muscadel)
noun ˌmʌskəˈtɛlˌməskəˈtɛl
  • 1A muscat grape, especially as grown for drying to make raisins.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is a blend of Riesling, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, muscatel and Gewürztraminer.
    • These oils are used in making perfume and in imparting a muscatel flavor to wines, vermouths, and liqueurs.
    • Over the centuries, viniculture in what is now Peru and Chile developed brandy from muscatel grapes, now called pisco.
    1. 1.1 A raisin made from a muscatel grape.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • See also currants, lexias, muscatels, sultanas, and raisins for specific sorts of dried grape.
      • Soft and spicy, with aged wine characters and flavours of muscatel raisins.
    2. 1.2mass noun A wine made from muscatel grapes.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • How sweet the coffee tastes, more delicious than a thousand kisses, mellower than muscatel wine.
      • This is a remote arid area of thorn bushes, ostriches, and minimal rainfall, but the town, Montagu, is famous for the production of muscatel, a sweet dessert wine.

Origin

Via Old French from Provençal, diminutive of muscat (see muscat).

Rhymes

Adele, Aix-la-Chapelle, aquarelle, artel, au naturel, bagatelle, béchamel, befell, bell, belle, boatel, Brunel, Cadell, carousel, cartel, cell, Chanel, chanterelle, clientele, Clonmel, compel, Cornell, crime passionnel, dell, demoiselle, dispel, dwell, el, ell, Estelle, excel, expel, farewell, fell, Fidel, fontanelle, foretell, Gabrielle, gazelle, gel, Giselle, hell, hotel, impel, knell, lapel, mademoiselle, maître d'hôtel, Manuel, marcel, matériel, mesdemoiselles, Michel, Michelle, Miguel, misspell, morel, moschatel, Moselle, motel, nacelle, Nell, Nobel, Noel, organelle, outsell, Parnell, pell-mell, personnel, propel, quell, quenelle, rappel, Raquel, Ravel, rebel, repel, Rochelle, Sahel, sardelle, sell, shell, show-and-tell, smell, Snell, spell, spinel, swell, tell, undersell, vielle, villanelle, well, yell
 
 

Definition of muscatel in US English:

muscatel

(also muscadel)
nounˌməskəˈtɛlˌməskəˈtel
  • 1A muscat grape, especially as grown for drying to make raisins.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Over the centuries, viniculture in what is now Peru and Chile developed brandy from muscatel grapes, now called pisco.
    • It is a blend of Riesling, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, muscatel and Gewürztraminer.
    • These oils are used in making perfume and in imparting a muscatel flavor to wines, vermouths, and liqueurs.
    1. 1.1 A raisin made from a muscatel grape.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • See also currants, lexias, muscatels, sultanas, and raisins for specific sorts of dried grape.
      • Soft and spicy, with aged wine characters and flavours of muscatel raisins.
    2. 1.2 A wine made from the muscatel grape.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is a remote arid area of thorn bushes, ostriches, and minimal rainfall, but the town, Montagu, is famous for the production of muscatel, a sweet dessert wine.
      • How sweet the coffee tastes, more delicious than a thousand kisses, mellower than muscatel wine.

Origin

Via Old French from Provençal, diminutive of muscat (see muscat).

 
 
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