muscatel

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There were also the transparent, jelly-like seeds of the nipa palm, boiled in syrup till they looked like magnified balls of sago or tapioca I partook of these rich delicacies, though my soul was hungering for a piece of broiled steak, and I accepted a glass of muscatel, which is the accepted ladies' wine here.

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  1. noun A rich sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
  2. noun A muscat grape or raisin.

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  • In your heart of hearts, you think a Richard kind of rummy is going to stoke up on some sweet lucy or a tankard of muscatel, and so you just don't dip into the wallet for somebody like that. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 04-05 - October-November 1999
  • Dealers sob into their muscatel, drop crocodile tears on their caviar. —  process 10
  • Cephas had no idea what he was talking about, but reported it to the authorities anyway, in exchange for enough shekels to buy a short dog of muscatel. —  NewWest.Net All Headlines
  • All he's missing is a paper bag with a muscatel bottle in it. —  Think Progress
  • There were also the transparent, jelly-like seeds of the nipa palm, boiled in syrup till they looked like magnified balls of sago or tapioca I partook of these rich delicacies, though my soul was hungering for a piece of broiled steak, and I accepted a glass of muscatel, which is the accepted ladies' wine here. —  A Woman's Impression of the Philippines
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  1. Middle English muscadelle, partly from Medieval Latin muscātellum (from muscātus, nutmeg, musky, from Late Latin muscus, musk; see musk), and partly from Old French muscadel (from Old Provençal, diminutive of muscat, muscat; see muscat).
 

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