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Chianti

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Chi·an·ti  (k-änt, -n-)
n.
A dry red table wine made from a blend of different varieties of grapes, originally produced in northwest Italy.
[After the Chianti Mountains, a range of the Apennines in central Italy.]
chianti [kɪˈæntɪ]
n
(Miscellaneous Technologies / Brewing) (sometimes capital) a dry red wine produced in the Chianti region of Italy
Chianti (Italian) [ˈkjanti]
pl n
(Placename) a mountain range in central Italy, in Tuscany, rising over 870 m (2900 ft.): part of the Apennines
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Noun1.ChiantiChianti - dry red Italian table wine from the Chianti region of Tuscany
red wine - wine having a red color derived from skins of dark-colored grapes


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From force of habit, though the small studio with the stove lit was very hot, he kept on his great-coat, with the collar turned up, and his bowler hat: he looked with satisfaction on the four large fiaschi of Chianti which stood in front of him in a row, two on each side of a bottle of whiskey; he said it reminded him of a slim fair Circassian guarded by four corpulent eunuchs.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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