malmsey

American  

[mahm-zee] / ˈmɑm zi /

noun

1. a strong, sweet wine with a strong flavor, originally made in Greece but now made mainly in Madeira.

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malmsey British  

/ ˈmɑːmzɪ /

noun

1. a sweet Madeira wine

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Etymology

Origin of malmsey

1325–75; Middle English malmesye < Middle Low German ≪ Monemvasia Greek town where it was originally produced

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Example Sentences

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malmsey

The exports were woollen goods, calf-skins, &c.; and the imports were silks, camblets, rhubarb, malmsey, muscadel, and other wines: oils, cotton wool, Turkey carpets, galls, and Indian spices.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

There was malvagia—malvoisie, the same old malmsey that did for the Duke of Clarence.

From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

"Rastrum" was a Leipzig beer reported to be extraordinarily bad; "malvoisie," a highly prized, imported wine, known in England as "malmsey."

From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther

I should think the Duke of Clarence must even have found malmsey nauseating, when he choked and went purple and was really asphyxiated in a butt of it.

From The Lost Girl by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Then he interviewed the butler about the supplies of malmsey, clary, mead, ale, and the like.

From The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

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