maceration
Americannoun
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the act or process of macerating.
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a process in winemaking in which the crushed grape skins are left in the juice until they have imparted the desired color or the proper amount of tannins and aroma.
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Etymology
Origin of maceration
1485–95; < Latin mācerātiōn-, stem of mācerātiō; see macerate, -ion
Example Sentences
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The residues are sorted, ground and mixed with a maceration of gum arabic to facilitate ignition, and with clay to slow combustion.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
The "maceration" of the sewage that was being pumped out along the outfall pipe was, they said, not treatment, and it would be washed back in to Scarborough's bays.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2022
Juice from the white grapes macerates with the skins as with red wines, absorbing tannins and pigment depending on the length of the maceration.
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2022
They are typically bottled and consumed in their youth, rarely ever aged in oak, and have a shorter maceration period with the red grape skins resulting in a lighter color.
From Salon • Aug. 7, 2021
Then he threw down his cowl and displayed his neck, long and thin and wasted by maceration and austerities, to the confusion of the misbelievers.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles
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