malmsey

Definitions

Examples

• Malmsey, as perhaps you know, used to be considered a specific for coughs arising from weakness.

• Malmsey was a strangely generic term for sweet wines from almost every vine-growing district.

• The fashion of Malmsey had passed away, and the Hungarian red wine (Ofener) had taken its place.

• Other high-class wines, known as Bual, Sercial and Malmsey, are made from varieties of grapes bearing the same names.

• The blockhead must imagine that Malmsey runs in a stream under the ocean, like the Alpheus.