Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Wine made from grapes which have been dried or partly dried by exposure to the sun: so called from the bed of straw upon which they have been laid. Such wine is generally sweet and rich.
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If this conjecture is well-founded, we may presume that _oseye_ was a luscious-sweet, or straw-wine, similar to that which is still made in that province.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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