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lachryma christi
n. An Italian white wine from grapes grown on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.
Usage examples of "lachryma christi".
We stopped off in New York for the night, before hopping on up to Boston (some time Ill tell you about that two days in Worcester, with the Tigers mother packing us a box-lunch for the Dartmouth-Harvard game that consisted of Lachryma Christi, individual guinea hens and hot clam chowder.
We ate some rolls we had brought in our pockets, and some of the party tried a bottle of the wine that one of the cormorants had brought up, but found it anything but the Lachryma Christi it was named.
Tortoni asked Pia if she would bring him two glasses and his bottle of Lachryma Christi, the sweet yellow wine he drank after Mass every Sunday.