muscadel
Americannoun
noun
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And for dinner was corned beef and carrots, and for drink sherris-sack and muscadel.
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Holt, Emily Sarah
Lastly, let her take half a drachm of bay-berries beaten into a powder, in a drachm of muscadel or teat.
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 Stevenson, William
Wench, another bumper . . . canary, sack or muscadel . . . no thin Rhenish wine shall e'er defile this throat!
From The Nest of the Sparrowhawk by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
This district is rich in gold, and produces an excellent wine resembling muscadel.
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