White wine

noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Light-colored wine (usually yellow with a hint of green but not pink). countable, uncountable

    "In contrast to making red wine, the juice for white wine is fermented without the skins and seeds."

  2. 2
    pale yellowish wine made from white grapes or red grapes with skins removed before fermentation wordnet
  3. 3
    Gin. countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable

    "Jack Randall then impatient rose, / And said, ‘Tom's speech were just as fine / If he would call that first of goes / By that genteeler name—white wine.'"

Etymology

From Middle English white wyn, whit win.

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