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Canary wine

NOUN
  1. a sweet white wine from the Canary Islands

How To Use Canary wine In A Sentence

  • Shakespeare refers to canary wine in Twelfth Night and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
  • He then disappeared, and presently entered with two earthen flagons, one filled with canary wine, the other with brandy.
  • The yellow colour may justify the name, for not only is the canary-bird yellow, but canary wine is of a golden hue.
  • This was considered as a trial of victory among these ‘canary birds,’ or bibbers of canary wine.
  • Similar to malmsey, canary wine was a sweet white variety with a yellow tint.
  • After our walk we returned to our rooms to dress and then enjoyed a huge repast of fresh country bread, roast chicken, stewed carp, pike with quince cream, artichoke pie—a new vegetable from Italy—mallow salad, hard cheese, sack posset, cider, and canary wine. Exit the Actress
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