Rumney

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A form of Greek wine popular in England and Europe during the 14th to 16th centuries. countable, uncountable

    "All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like […]"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A suburban area and community in eastern Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST2179).
  2. 2
    A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.
  3. 3
    A surname.

Synonyms

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paintersheep

Example

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"All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Derived from Romania, at that time a common name for Greece and the southern Balkans, the lands of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Etymology 2

Variant of Romney.

Related phrases

Mount Rumney

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