Meaning of malmsey | Babel Free

Definitions

A sweet fortified wine made in Madeira, originally from the malvasia grape.

countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Take that, and that, if all this will not do, Stabs him. Ile drowne you in the Malmesey-But within.”

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

“Hers was an idiotic sort of attachment, full of admiration for him, of voluptuousness for her, a beatitude that benumbed her; her soul sank into this drunkenness, shrivelled up, drowned in it, like Clarence in his butt of Malmsey.”

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