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malmsey

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malm·sey  (mämz)
n. pl. malm·seys
A sweet fortified wine originally made in Greece and now produced mainly in Madeira. Also called malvasia, malvoisie.
[Middle English, ultimately from Medieval Latin malvasia, malmasia, alteration of Medieval Greek Monemvasia (Malvasia), a village of southern Greece.]
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Noun1.malmsey - sweet Madeira wine
Madeira - an amber dessert wine from the Madeira Islands
malvasia - used to make malmsey wine
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Then several yeomen came forward and spread cloths upon the green grass, and placed a royal feast; while others still broached barrels of sack and Malmsey and good stout ale, and set them in jars upon the cloth, with drinking horns about them.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Pyle, Howard View in context
For example, an English prince died one day because they had put him into a butt of Malmsey.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Is it not enough that you leech me of good marks of such a quantity that you may ever after wear mantles of villosa and feast on simnel bread and malmsey, that you must needs burden me still further with the affliction of thy vile tongue?
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