oloroso
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of oloroso
1875–80; < Spanish: literally, sweet-smelling, equivalent to olor smell (< Latin (variant of odor odor ), equivalent to ol ( ēre ) to give off a smell + -or -or 1 ) + -oso -ous
Example Sentences
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If the unfortified wines are fuller bodied, they may be selected to become oloroso sherries.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2019
Or maybe an amontillado or oloroso sherry, a category of wine too often ignored.
From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2018
Its sherry sibling, oloroso, is another, as are other fortified wines like Madeira and port, to say nothing of lesser known brethren like Banyuls and Maury.
From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2017
But I migh serve a dark oloroso with a dense, sweet dessert- such as an English Christmas Pudding or mince pie.
From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2017
There, protruding formidable abdomens pressed closely against each other, huge casks contained the martial Spanish wines, sherry and its derivatives, the san lucar, pasto, pale dry, oloroso and amontilla.
From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
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