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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A sweet fortified wine originally made in Greece and now produced mainly in Madeira.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.]
malmsey [ˈmɑːmzɪ]
n
(Miscellaneous Technologies / Brewing) a sweet Madeira wine
[from Medieval Latin Malmasia, corruption of Greek Monembasia, Greek port from which the wine was shipped]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.malmsey - sweet Madeira winemalmsey - sweet Madeira wine                  
Madeira - an amber dessert wine from the Madeira Islands
malvasia - used to make malmsey wine
Translations
malmsey
n → Malvasier(wein) m
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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.
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For example, an English prince died one day because they had put him into a butt of Malmsey.
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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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