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单词 muscatel
释义

muscatel

/ˌmʌskəˈtɛl /
(also muscadel)
noun
1A muscat grape, especially as grown for drying to make raisins.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.
1.1A raisin made from a muscatel grape.Soft and spicy, with aged wine characters and flavours of muscatel raisins....
  • See also currants, lexias, muscatels, sultanas, and raisins for specific sorts of dried grape.
1.2 [mass noun] A wine made from muscatel grapes.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).

Rhymes

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