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SHERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("sherry" is a kind of...):
fortified wine (wine to which alcohol (usually grape brandy) has been added)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sherry"):
Manzanilla (very dry pale sherry from Spain)
Amontillado (pale medium-dry sherry from Spain)
Context examples:
I don't so much mind the fust—the 'ittin' with a pole afore I chucks in their dinner; but I waits till they've 'ad their sherry and kawffee, so to speak, afore I tries on with the ear-scratchin'.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He sat placidly perusing the newspaper, with his little head on one side, and a glass of warm sherry negus at his elbow.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The cloth being drawn, and some sherry put upon the table (of which I had a glass), my aunt sent up for Mr. Dick again, who joined us, and looked as wise as he could when she requested him to attend to my story, which she elicited from me, gradually, by a course of questions.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
While he was so engaged, he asked me what I would take with it; and on my replying Half a pint of sherry, thought it a favourable opportunity, I am afraid, to extract that measure of wine from the stale leavings at the bottoms of several small decanters.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and preferred cork jackets, I don't know; all I know is, that there was but one solitary bidding, and that was from an attorney connected with the bill-broking business, who offered two pounds in cash, and the balance in sherry, but declined to be guaranteed from drowning on any higher bargain.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Consequently the advertisement was withdrawn at a dead loss—for as to sherry, my poor dear mother's own sherry was in the market then—and ten years afterwards, the caul was put up in a raffle down in our part of the country, to fifty members at half-a-crown a head, the winner to spend five shillings.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
We turned into a room near at hand (I think it was the identical breakfast-room, made memorable by the brown East Indian sherry), and I heard a voice say, Mr. Copperfield, my daughter Dora, and my daughter Dora's confidential friend!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
