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Canary wine   /kənˈɛri waɪn/   Listen
Canary wine

noun
1.
A sweet white wine from the Canary Islands.





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"Canary wine" Quotes from Famous Books



... of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine? Or are fruits of Paradise Sweeter than those dainty pies Of venison? O generous food! Drest as though bold Robin Hood Would, with his maid Marian, Sup and bowse with horn ...
— Inns and Taverns of Old London • Henry C. Shelley
... aught appear, which I not know of, That will the pastry, not my paper, show of. Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be; But that which most doth take my muse and me, Is a pure cup of rich canary wine, Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine: Of which had Horace, or Anacreon tasted, Their lives, as do their lines, till now had lasted. Tobacco, nectar, or the Thespian spring, Are all but Luther's beer, to this I sing. Of this we will sup free, but moderately, ...
— Discoveries and Some Poems • Ben Jonson


Words linked to "Canary wine" :   white wine


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