Muscatel
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A muscat grape or raisin, especially one from southern Spain. countable, uncountable
- 2 sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine wordnet
- 3 A sweet wine made from these grapes. countable, uncountable
- 4 wine from muscat grapes wordnet
Example
More examples"From a few mud houses beyond a rising ground, not far from the river, came several men and women, bringing peaches and melons in their ponchos, together with baskets of native manufacture, filled with two kinds of grapes, one variety of which was the white Muscatel. At different points near this river my attention had been attracted by a disease very prevalent among the people, which exhibited itself in the form of a large swelling upon the throat, and was called by the natives the coté (goitre)."
Etymology
From Middle English muskadel, from Old Occitan muscadel, originally a diminutive of muscat.
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