malvasia

How to use malvasia in a sentence

• He stood alone, that marvelous man, holding the last bottle of malvasia sweetly cradled in an arm, and he harangued the multitude.

  Where the Pavement Ends | John Russell

• It bore the magic brand malvasia, under date of '57, and truly it was the drink of the gods, smooth as honey and sweet as a nut.

  Where the Pavement Ends | John Russell

• His biographer, malvasia, relates that Guido's works were sometimes begun and finished in three hours.

  A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools | Various

• The micrometers of malvasia, and later of Auzout and Picard, are the development of this discovery.

  A History of Science, Volume 2(of 5) | Henry Smith Williams

• Both these artists are commended by the continuator of malvasia.

  The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. V (of 6) | Luigi Antonio Lanzi