amontillado
[uh-mon-tl-ah-doh, -tee-ah-; Spanish ah-mawn-tee-lyah-thaw, -yah-th aw]
- a pale, dry Spanish sherry.
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Origin of amontillado
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Contemporary Examples
Palo Cortado tastes like a lovechild born from Amontillado and Oloroso.
Historical Examples
A little glass of Amontillado with the oysters, said the baron, just to flavor them!
The Woman GivesOwen Johnson
What a crowning pleasure would a glass of sherry—that Amontillado of yours—be in such a spot.
Luttrell Of ArranCharles James Lever
Amontillado, a dry kind of sherry wine of a light colour, highly esteemed.
Amontillado, a-mon-til-y′do, n. a dry or little sweet kind of sherry of a light colour and body.
Amontillado (a very nutty wine) is frequently added to sherries deficient in flavour.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume IIArnold Cooley
amontillado
- a medium dry Spanish sherry, not as pale in colour as a fino
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Word Origin
C19: from Spanish vino amontillado wine of Montilla, town in Spain
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Word Origin and History for amontillado
n.
a variety of sherry wine, 1825, from Spanish amontillado, from a "from" (from Latin ad; see ad-) + Montilla, name of a town in the province of Cordova. Formerly the name of a regional wine, now of a type of sherry.
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