Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fortified Spanish wine ranging from very dry to sweet and from amber to brown.
- n. A similar wine made elsewhere.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Originally, the wine of Xeres; hence; a general name for the strong white wines of the south of Spain, of all qualities except the lowest. It is a wine that is much manipulated, differences of color being often produced by artificial means, and a very large part of the exported wine being fortified with brandy or alcohol, and otherwise disguised. Compare
amontillado . - n. A small wine-glass of the size and form commonly used for sherry and similar wines.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
- n. A variety of sherry.
- n. A glass of sherry.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down.
WordNet 3.0
- n. dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif
Etymologies
- From Middle English sherris (interpreted as plural), from Spanish (vino de) Xeres ("wine of Xeres"), Xeres being the former name of Jerez. (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of sherris (taken as pl.), after Xeres (Jerez), Spain. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He could never tell Madeira from sherry, -- nay, an Oriental friend having sent him a butt of _sheeraz_, when he {p. 253} remembered the circumstance some time afterwards, and called for a bottle to have Sir John Malcolm's opinion of its quality, it turned out that his butler, mistaking the label, had already served up half the bin as _sherry_.”
“The term sherry is derived from the name of the town where it is made: Jerez de la Frontera, which, along with Sanlúcar de Barrameda and Puerto de Santa María, forms a triangle in southwestern Spain.”
“Madrid maintains that the term sherry can only be applied to wine made in the region of Jerez in southern Spain.”
“But they're also keen on lesser-known wine-producing areas, like Canada's Niagara region, which touts scenic wonders and ice wine, to boot, and European centers that specialize in sherry and port.”
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“An agreement on the terms sherry and porto, drinks from Spain and”
“The accord snagged on the names of fortified wines, with Spain and Portugal insisting South Africa stop using the terms sherry and port for its wines.”
“You persuaded me to give up that silly drink they call sherry, and drink ale; and what was it but drinking ale which gave me courage to knock down that fellow”
“¼ cup raisins, soaked in sherry to cover until soft”
“Well, I don’t know if sherry is going to sweep the nation, but there is a little movement here in San Francisco.”
Is sherry’s retro image ripe for a makeover? On public radio’s Marketplace | Dr Vino's wine blog
“The term sherry has “a lot of baggage,” he said, elaborating that the new name will give them an opportunity to energize their new category of aperas, including dry, medium dry and medium sweet (which replace Fino, Amontillados and Oloroso), with younger consumers.”
Apera, topaque, vintage, lickoffable - Aussie fortifieds grasp new names | Dr Vino's wine blog
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sherry’.
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songbirds
Names of girls in song titles. Not in the lyrics, just in the titles.
Just the name on the list, then the full title with any identifying notes in the comments, please.
Can be the same ...marianne, evie, lady d'arbanville, peggy sue, suzanne, dianne, boni maroni, miss molly, lola, mony, sadie, rita and 206 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Girls Names
List of Girls names.
carla, jamie, ashley, kaitlyn, mae, lynn, nicole, sierra, mary, ann, manda, sara and 130 more...
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Originally
Being a list of words which have the word "originally" in their definitions. Sometimes this takes the form "originally... now...."
leave, primitively, sherry, boulevard, pressboard, Zouave, wolfhound, Babenberg, kumiss, Chickasaw, azalea, bombardon and 19 more...
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try not to enjoy it too much.git, ghoti, sauce, quail, querulous, quarrelsome, reliability, untoward, incongruities, fission, fanatic, apple and 206 more...
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Tip-Top Toponymic
Place names that have entered general speech. Toponyms that interest me in other ways are on Place Names Of Distinction
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Baby Got Back-Formations
"A new word created by removing an affix from an already existing word, as vacuum clean from vacuum cleaner, or by removing what is mistakenly thought to be an affix, as pea from the earlier Englis...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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Words suggested in response to Funk's...
In response to Wilfred J. Funk's "ten most beautiful words in the English language" list of 1932.
beer, rum, rye, sauterne, sherry, brandy, bourbon, Scotch, champagne, cocktail, lyric, serenity and 137 more...
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I Drink Your...
I drink it up!
milkshake, smoothie, egg cream, coolatta, horchata, lassi, slurpee, Arnold Palmer, Shirley Temple, coffee, tea, cappuccino and 42 more...
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Bottle of Red, Bottle of White
Wine types.
pinot, traminette, Chablis, Chardonnay, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, vermouth, vin jaune, hock, malmsey, Liebfraumilch, Moselle and 82 more...
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foodie list - drink me
absinthe, beer, carafe, claret, coffee, cream, wine, sherry, sarsaparilla, rum, decant, java and 20 more...
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bluepenclub's Words
glee, ghastly, odious, sherry, unfortunate, schadenfreude, flummox, pulchritude, squee, befuddle, clusterfuck, pants and 10 more...
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persian words in english
words originally derived from persian that have made it to english sometimes with several stops in intermediate languages
balcony, algorithm, arsenic, aubergine, azure, baghdad, beige, bombast, borax, bronze, caftan, calabash and 79 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sherry.
fbharjo originally dry...... now sweet! May 14, 2012
fbharjo According to one theory, it is from Jerez in Spain, which itself comes from Persian Shiraz during the time of Rustamid empire in Spain Aug 31, 2009
chained_bear Sheh-eh-eh-ehe-eh-herry baay-yaaay-beee...
Don't forget Oh Sherrie by Steve Perry. HA! Feb 8, 2008
skipvia Sherry Baby by the Four Seasons Feb 8, 2008