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Medoc   /mˌɛdˈɔk/   Listen
Medoc

noun
1.
Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.






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"Medoc" Quotes from Famous Books



... good French wine crowned the repast, and caused Michel Ardan to remark that the lunar vines, warmed by this ardent sun, ought to distil the most generous wines—that is, if they existed. Any way, the far-seeing Frenchman had taken care not to forget in his collection some precious cuttings of the Medoc and Cote d'Or, upon which he ...
— The Moon-Voyage • Jules Verne

... not help imagining in how many a hard-fought day he had borne a part, for he evidently, from his age and bearing, had been one of the soldiers of the empire. I invited him to partake of my bottle of Medoc, by which he seemed flattered. When the flask became low, and was replaced by another, he appeared to have lost much of his constrained air, and seemed forgetting rapidly the suspicious circumstances which he supposed attached to me—waxed wondrous confidential and communicative, ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)

... pedestrian journey, that I was obliged to remain in my chamber one entire day. There is a very good table d'hote at my bin for twelve Groschen. Wine is paid for extra, and at the rate of from 12 to 18 Groschen the bottle. The sort usually drunk here is the Medoc. The prices of articles of prune necessity are dearer in Berlin than either at Dresden or Vienna; particularly the article of washing, which is dearer than in any country I have ...
— After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 • Major W. E Frye

... it highly probable," asserted Aunt Maria, forgetting her Scandinavian hypothesis. "I don't see how you can doubt that that flaxen-haired girl is a descendant of Medoc, Prince of Wales." ...
— Overland • John William De Forest



Words linked to "Medoc" :   Bordeaux, red wine, Bordeaux wine, Sauvignon grape



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