Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- So old as to be covered with beeswing: said of wine, especially port.
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"The host," he says, "drinks old beeswinged Setian wine, served to him in a gold goblet by a beautiful boy; to you a coarse black slave brings in a cracked cup wine too foul even to foment a bruise.
Horace William Tuckwell 1874
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