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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.
Definition 2024
Sherry
sherry
sherry
See also: Sherry
English
Noun
sherry (usually uncountable, plural sherries)
- (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.
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- A variety of sherry.
- They produce several quality sherries.
- A glass of sherry.
- Would you like a sherry?
Translations
fortified wine
variety of sherry
glass of sherry
See also
Italian
Noun
sherry m (invariable)
- sherry