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malmsey

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈmɑːmzɪ/Part of speech nounSorted aelmmsyStarts with MEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. sweet Madeira wine

Word origin

Via Middle English malmesye from Middle Dutch malemeseye, from Italian via Old French, ultimately from Ancient Greek Μονεμβασία (Monembasía, “Monemvasia”, a city on the Peloponnese), from μόνος (mónos, “only one”) + ἔμβασις (émbasis, “entering into”, ἐν- + βάσις). Doublet of malvoisie.

Used in a sentence

  • Take that, and that, if all this will not do, Stabs him. Ile drowne you in the Malmesey-But within.
  • All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like […]

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