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Sherry glass contents
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amontillado
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
a variety of sherry wine, 1825, from Spanish amontillado , from a "from" (from Latin ad ; see ad- ) + Montilla , name of a town in the province of Cordova. Formerly the name of a regional wine, now of a type of sherry.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a type of Spanish wine; a pale, dry sherry
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amontillado \A*mon`til*la"do\, n. [Sp.] A dry kind of cherry, of a light color. --Simmonds.
Usage examples of amontillado.
He soon returned from the kitchen with four small baskets and an undusted bottle of Amontillado.
They had consumed marvellous quantities of that small Amontillado which is as it were a thin fire to the blood, heating and degenerating at once.
Opening a cupboard, he displayed a fine shelf of Amontillado, Napoleon brandy, and selected liqueurs.