muscatel
Americannoun
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a sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
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a muscat grape.
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a raisin made from muscat grapes.
noun
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Also called: muscat. a rich sweet wine made from muscat grapes
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the grape or raisin from a muscat vine
Etymology
Origin of muscatel
1350–1400; < Middle French, equivalent to muscat muscat + -el noun suffix; replacing Middle English muscadel ( le ) < Middle French, equivalent to muscad- (< Old Provençal muscade, feminine of muscat musky) + -elle, feminine of -el noun suffix
Example Sentences
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The wine hasn’t been fashionable, perhaps because of its lean profile and the similarity in name to muscat, or moscato, and muscatel.
From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2021
Chilean labels include Cacique Maravilla’s Vino Naranja, a robust, unfiltered orange wine made from muscatel grapes.
From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2019
For an extra treat, pair it with a glass of Malaga wine, a fragrant muscatel that was “medieval Spain’s greatest export.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2014
By 1923, he was making altar wines in the following varieties: cabernet sauvignon, muscatel, sherry.
From Newsweek • Jun. 1, 2010
“Will you please stop shrieking like a fishmonger and run along? Don’t you have a bottle of muscatel baking in the oven? Now let me alone. I’m very nervous.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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