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Muscatel   Listen
noun
Muscatel  n.  
1.
A common name for several varieties of rich sweet wine, made in Italy, Spain, and France.
2.
pl. Finest raisins, dried on the vine; "sun raisins." (Variously written moscatel, muscadel, etc)





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"Muscatel" Quotes from Famous Books



... as she was ascending Marked the wealth of the clusters, that scarce by their leafage were hidden. Shady and covered the way through the lofty middlemost alley, Which upon steps that were made of unhewn blocks you ascended. There were the Muscatel, and there were the Chasselas hanging Side by side, of unusual size and colored with purple, All set out with the purpose of decking the visitor's table; While with single vine-stocks the rest of the hillside was covered, Bearing inferior ...
— Hermann and Dorothea • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
... season to ripen. The Weiker hickory, which is a cross between shagbark (Carya ovata) and shellbark (C. laciniosa) hickories, ripens completely each season. Catawba grapes won't ripen except in a rather long summer. Just across the lake the golden muscatel grapes have ripened two or three times in ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 • Various
... these rich delicacies, though my soul was hungering for a piece of broiled steak, and I accepted a glass of muscatel, which is the accepted ladies' wine here. My hostesses were eager that I should try all kinds of foods, and a refusal to accept met with a protest, "Otra clase, otra clase." Then the Gobernadora and I went ...
— A Woman's Impression of the Philippines • Mary Helen Fee


Words linked to "Muscatel" :   muscat grape, muscadelle, muscat


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