Crossword clues for muscat
muscat
- Kitty, after quantity of money, brought back wine
- Sweet wine's pronounced aroma - flipping cheers!
- Asian capital
- Wine grape
- Arabian peninsula capital
- Sweet white grape
- Sweet winemaking grape
- Capital on the Gulf of Oman
- Type of 18
- Sweet white wine — Omani port
- Sweet grape used for raisins
- Site of Sultan Qaboos's palace
- Gulf port — sweet grape
- Grape that's also a world capital
- Fragrant wine grape
- Sweet grape used in winemaking
- Grape variety
- Mideast capital
- Gulf of Oman port
- Where Oman Air is headquartered
- Sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine
- A port on the Gulf of Oman and capital of the sultanate of Oman
- Any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes
- Sweet wine grape
- Capital of 42 Across
- Oman's capital
- White grape
- Capital of Oman
- Gulf port - sweet grape
- Capital of Oman; wine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Muscat \Mus"cat\, n. [F. See Muscadel.] (Bot.) A name given to several varieties of Old World grapes, differing in color, size, etc., but all having a somewhat musky flavor. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color. [Written also muskat.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
capital of Oman, from Arabic Masqat, said to mean "hidden" (it is isolated from the interior by hills).
type of wine, 1570s, from French, from Italian moscato, literally "musky-flavored," from Vulgar Latin *muscatus, from Latin muscus (see musk).\n
Wiktionary
n. 1 A white grape variety; used as table grapes and for making raisins and sweet wine. 2 The muscatel wine made from these grapes. 3 The vine bearing this fruit.
WordNet
n. any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes [syn: muskat]
a port on the Gulf of Oman and capital of the sultanate of Oman [syn: Masqat, capital of Oman]
wine from muscat grapes [syn: muscatel, muscadel, muscadelle]
sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine [syn: muscatel, muscat grape]
Wikipedia
The Muscat family of grapes include over 200 grape varieties belonging to the Vitis vinifera species that have been used in wine production and as raisin and table grapes around the globe for many centuries. Their colors ranges from white (such as Muscat Ottonel), to yellow ( Moscato Giallo), to pink ( Moscato rosa del Trentino) to near black ( Muscat Hamburg). Muscat grapes and wines almost always have a pronounced sweet floral aroma. The breadth and number of varieties of Muscat suggest that it is perhaps the oldest domesticated grape variety, and there are theories that most families within the Vitis vinifera grape variety are descended from the Muscat variety.
Among the most notable members of the Muscat family include Muscat blanc à Petits Grains which is the main grape variety used in the production of the Italian sparkling wine Asti (also known as Moscato Asti) made in the Piedmont region. It is also used in the production of many of the French fortified wines known as vin doux naturels. In Australia, this is also the main grape used in the production of Liqueur Muscat from the Victorian wine region of Rutherglen. Young, unaged and unfortified examples of Muscat blanc tend to exhibit the characteristic Muscat "grapey" aroma as well as citrus, rose and peach notes. Fortified and aged examples (particularly those that have been barrel aged) tend to be very dark in color due to oxidation with aroma notes of coffee, fruit cake, raisins and toffee.
Muscat of Alexandria is another Muscat variety commonly used in the production of French vin doux naturel, but it is also found in Spain, where it is used to make many of the fortified Spanish Moscatels. Elsewhere it is used to make off-dry to sweet white wines, often labeled as Moscato in Australia, California and South Africa. In Alsace and parts of Central Europe, Muscat Ottonel is used to produce usually dry and highly perfumed wines.
Muscat may refer to:
Places in Oman:- Muscat, Oman, the capital and largest city of Oman
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Muscat Governorate, the region of Oman which includes the capital city
- Muscat District of Muscat Governorate.
- Muscat Securities Market, the stock exchange in Oman
- Muscat International Airport
- Muscat (football club), a football club in Oman
- Muscat and Oman, the predecessor state of Oman
- Muscat (grape), a variety of grape used for wine, table grapes, and raisins
- Muscat Stadium, a Japanese baseball stadium
- Alex Muscat (born 1984), Maltese footballer
- Angelo Muscat (1930–1971), Maltese actor
- Brent Muscat (born 1967), American rock guitarist
- Charles Muscat (1963–2011), Maltese footballer
- Emmanuel Muscat (born 1984), Australian-born Maltese footballer
- John Nicholas Muscat (1735 – c. 1800), Maltese doctor of law and philosopher
- Joseph Muscat (born 1974), Maltese politician
- Josie Muscat, Maltese politician and doctor
- Kevin Muscat (born 1973), Australian footballer
- Mario Muscat (born 1976), Maltese footballer
- Mike Muscat (born 1952), American actor
- Nicola Muscat (born 1994), Maltese swimmer
- Morris Muskat (1906 - 1998), American petroleum researcher and engineer
Usage examples of "muscat".
He sold me some Scopolo and old Cyprus Muscat, but he began to exclaim when he heard where I was lodging, and how I had come there.
Muscat, the madam of the bordello, had her own method of recruiting what she considered the right sort of girls.
I made her drink a fourth glass of muscat, but an instant after she told me that she could not see anything, and we rose from the table.
I tried to raise her spirits, and to make her eat a good dinner, and to taste the excellent Muscat, of which the host had provided an enormous flask.
In a halting conversation with one of the crew, a coast Arab from a fishing village to the north called Khor al Fakhan, he learned that Muscat was backed by volcanic mountains of indescribable brutality.
Zayn had bestowed upon him the title of Muri, High Admiral, after the capture of Muscat.
If he sails directly to Arabia, the Emperor and the Tabernacle would have a dangerous and difficult overland journey to reach either Muscat or India.
In quitting this sea we sighted Muscat for an instant, one of the most important towns of the country of Oman.
Tell me what you have learned of Omani and Muscat, of Lamu and Zanzibar.
Dorian learned that the revolutionary junta still held power in Muscat, but that Caliph Zayn al-Din had consolidated his hold on Lamu and Zanzibar and all the other ports of the Omani empire.
Tuscan Club, has established a favorable reputation for its Italian varietals such as muscat canelli, sangiovese, and nebbiolo.
The harbour was crowded with small craft, mostly the dhows of the Mussulmen from India, Arabia and Muscat.
Beirut, Tripoli, Baghdad, out of Islamabad and Karachi, out of Bahrain, Muscat, Kuwait and Dubai, the wives and children of businessmen and diplomats, causing room shortages in Athens hotels, adding stories, new stories all the time.
One three-man team flew into Dubai from Instanbul and drove overland to Muscat on the coast road.
Four or five days before his departure, he took my arm and got me to go with him to a place about fifty paces from the house to drink a glass of Muscat at a Greek's, who kept his tavern open all night.