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Catawba   Listen
noun
Catawba  n.  
1.
A well known light red variety of American grape.
2.
A light-colored, sprightly American wine from the Catawba grape.





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"Catawba" Quotes from Famous Books



... a characteristic of any man calculated to succeed. After experimenting with many different varieties, he at last hit upon the Catawba. To encourage the industry he laid out a very large vineyard, gave away great numbers of cuttings, offered a prize for any improvement in the Catawba grape, and proclaimed that he would buy all the wine that could be brought to him from the valley, whether in ...
— Hidden Treasures - Why Some Succeed While Others Fail • Harry A. Lewis
... or an angel of some sort. However, they are talking about cookery now, and wines. Is there not an American wine called Catawampus? The Mad Doctor has his eye on me; he seems interested. I thought I heard him murmur Aspasia, or Aphasia, or something like that. It is not Catawampus—it is Catawba. I feel that I patauge—flounder, I mean. I am getting quite nervous; feel like a man in a powder-magazine, with lighted cigarettes everywhere. If one can withdraw them to the smoking-room, they will settle down somehow. They do. The Military Critic gets into a corner with BEILBY. The Americans ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, April 23, 1892 • Various
... grapes were small and tart, inferior to those which grew in the yard of Nellie at home; but they seemed to be trying to hide in the woods, and they were hard to get, therefore they were more to be desired than the choicest Catawba, ...
— Through Forest and Fire - Wild-Woods Series No. 1 • Edward Ellis


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