Meaning of MALMSEY
| Pronunciation: | | 'mâmzee
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| | Definition: | | [n] sweet Madeira wine |
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| | See Also: | | Madeira, malvasia | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Malm"sey\, n. [OE. malvesie, F. malvoisie, It.
malvasia, malavagia, fr. Malvasia, or Napoli di Malvasia, in
the Morea.]
A kind of sweet wine from Crete, the Canary Islands, etc.
--Shak.
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