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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)


adjective
Muscatel  adj.  Of, pertaining to, or designating, or derived from, a muscat grapes or similar grapes; as, muscatel grapes; muscatel wine, etc.





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"Muscatel" Quotes from Famous Books



... entirely different in their peculiar instincts as are the varieties of the human race. The different fruits and flowers continue the example;—the wild grapes of the forest are grapes, but although they belong to the same class, they are distinct from the luscious "Muscatel;" and the wild dog-rose of the hedge, although of the same class, is inferior to ...
— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker
... song Of the Scuppernong, From warm Carolinian valleys,— Nor the Isabel And the Muscatel That ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various
... full of cares, Transacted eminent affairs Along a parapet where pears Unripened fell And vines embellished the sweet airs With muscatel. ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 4 (of 4) • Various
... 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 ...
— A Woman's Impression of the Philippines • Mary Helen Fee
... crowns! What will I do with them? How will I spend them? Shall I drink Malmsey, Muscatel, the very best, such as brings pleasure to the heart? But at that rate I shall soon see the end of my money. Shall I play for florins and crowns? That would be an excellent means, certainly, of either becoming a hundred times richer or of losing every farthing. Strange! how ...
— The Amulet • Hendrik Conscience


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