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FORTIFIED WINE

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• FORTIFIED WINE (noun)
The noun FORTIFIED WINE has 1 sense:

1. wine to which alcohol (usually grape brandy) has been added

Familiarity information: FORTIFIED WINE used as a noun is very rare.

• FORTIFIED WINE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Wine to which alcohol (usually grape brandy) has been added

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("fortified wine" is a kind of...):

vino; wine (fermented juice (of grapes especially))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fortified wine"):

Madeira (an amber dessert wine from the Madeira Islands)

port; port wine (sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal)

sherry (dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif)

Marsala (dark sweet or semisweet dessert wine from Sicily)

muscadel; muscadelle; muscat; muscatel (wine from muscat grapes)

"It's often a person's mouth broke their nose."
(English proverb)
"Don't sell eggs in the bottom of hens"
(Breton proverb)
"Do good and throw it in sea."
(Arabic proverb)
"Next to fire, straw isn't good."
(Corsican proverb)

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