单词 | malmsey |
释义 | malmsey/ˈmɑːmzi /noun [mass noun] 1A fortified Madeira wine of the sweetest type.Madeira is made in several layers of sweetness, from sercial (the driest) to verdelho, bual and malmsey....
1.1 historical A strong, sweet white wine imported from Greece and the eastern Mediterranean islands.Linguistically and geographically, the sweet white wine called malmsey started out in Monemvasia in the Peloponnese, but its name was corrupted in French to malvoisie and further chewed about during its transfer to English....
OriginLate Middle English: from Middle Dutch malemeseye, via Old French from Monemvasia, a port in the Peloponnese, Greece. Compare with malvoisie. |
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