Sherry
['ʃɛri]
Definition
(noun.) dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif.
Typist: Shane--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
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Definition
n. a name derived from Xeres or Jerez de la Frontera near Cadiz and applied to the better kind of white wines grown in the neighbourhood of Xeres.—Sherry cobbler a cobbler made with sherry.—Natural sherry a sherry having from two to four per cent. of spirit added to make it keep.
Typist: Richard
Examples
- There were lockers all round, and Wilson, the sham chaplain, knocked one of them in, and pulled out a dozen of brown sherry. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Sherry wine,' returned Mr Riderhood, in the same sharp tone, 'if you're capable of it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Let's rinse our mouths with a drop of burnt sherry; the last-comer shall stand it, Mivins shall fetch it, and I'll help to drink it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He sat placidly perusing the newspaper, with his little head on one side, and a glass of warm sherry negus at his elbow. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They burn sherry very well here,' said Mr Inspector, as a piece of local intelligence. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But for a glass or two of sherry, I don't think I could have had my mind so much upon the stretch as it has been. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Not your sherry warm, with lemon-peel and nutmeg? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I shall send my father some rare old sherry, such as you cannot buy in England,--(such stuff as I've got in the bottle before me)! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Mr. Bounderby (whom he just knew by sight), at lunch on chop and sherry. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Well, then, give us a sherry cobbler. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He fortified himself with a little more sherry. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- My lady always had a regular distribution of good sound port and sherry among the infirm poor; and Miss Rachel wishes the custom to be kept up. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive hotels. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Shall we go over to Sherry's for a cup of tea? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Will you take port wine, sir, or sherry wine, sir? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Editor: Vicky