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Webster 1913 Edition


Sherry

Sher′ry

,
Noun.
[So called from
Xeres
, a Spanish town near Cadiz, x in Spanish having been formerly pronounced like sh in English.]
A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down.
Sherry cobbler
,
a beverage prepared with sherry wine, water, lemon or orange, sugar, ice, etc., and usually imbided through a straw or a glass tube.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sherry

SHER'RY

,
Noun.
[sometimes written sherris.] A species of wine; so called from Xeres in Spain, where it is made.

Definition 2024


Sherry

Sherry

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English

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Proper noun

Sherry

  1. A female given name, from the sherry wine, or a variant of Cheri.

sherry

sherry

See also: Sherry

English

Noun

sherry (usually uncountable, plural sherries)

  1. (uncountable) A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
    • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind:
      He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.
  2. A variety of sherry.
    They produce several quality sherries.
  3. A glass of sherry.
    Would you like a sherry?

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Czech

Noun

sherry n

  1. sherry (fortified wine)
  2. sherry (variety of sherry)
  3. sherry (glass of sherry)

Italian

Noun

sherry m (invariable)

  1. sherry