malvoisie
Americannoun
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malmsey wine.
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the malvasia grape.
noun
Etymology
Origin of malvoisie
1350–1400; < French; replacing Middle English malvesie < Middle French < Italian malvasia. See malmsey, malvasia
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His wine he takes hot when the nights are cold, malvoisie or vernage, with as much spice as would cover the thumb-nail.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"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
Of wines, malmsey, chiefly remembered in connection with George of Clarence, and malvoisie are doublets, from Monemvasia in the Morea.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
And be it noted, that the vicar is obliged to give to the Doge two flasks of malvoisie, with two oranges besides.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by John Ruskin
I have translated it thus:— The sugar, candles, and the saddled mule, Together with your cask of malvoisie, So far exceed all my necessity That Michael and not I my debt must rule.
From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds
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