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metheglin
[ muh-theg-lin ]
noun
- a variety of spiced mead.
metheglin
/ məˈθɛɡlɪn /
noun
- (esp formerly) spiced or medicated mead
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Origin of metheglin1
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Origin of metheglin1
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Example Sentences
In some houses it very nearly resembled the good metheglin, very common in the northern counties of England.
Presently servants came in and set wine before them—honey-mead and Danish beer, and metheglin and sweet cakes.
Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs and vessels, begging a draught of what he called bee-wine.
The older the honey is, the whiter coloured the Metheglin will be.
Honey similarly treated affords the metheglin so much prized by our ancestors.
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