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
Example Sentences
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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 Symonds, John Addington
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 Weekley, Ernest
Veronica's women had brought Gianluca wine, and his mother was giving him certain drops of a stimulant in a glass of fragrant old malvoisie, while his father bent over him anxiously, still asking useless questions.
From Taquisara by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
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 Ruskin, John
Fr�d�rique paused to moisten her lips with malvoisie, and I turned my face so that I could see her better.
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Kock, Charles Paul de
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