retsina
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of retsina
1935–40; < Modern Greek < Medieval Latin resina resin
Example Sentences
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Nor do I think they confuse other Greek wines with retsina, a traditional wine flavored with the sap of the Aleppo pine, which tourist manuals over generations have warned people to avoid.
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2021
Intrepid wine lovers might want to take a chance with a retsina.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2021
Compare today with Shakespearean-era Globe Theatre audiences with groundlings, boisterous Comedie-Francaise fans or ancient Greeks taking in epic tragedies and large wineskins of retsina outdoors.
From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2018
Perhaps most tellingly of all, no restaurant here, no matter how traditional, seems to serve retsina, the national wine.
From The Guardian • Aug. 25, 2012
In the town square, men gather beneath plane trees to sip retsina, a resin-flavored wine.
From Time Magazine Archive
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