MALMSEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does malmsey mean? 

• MALMSEY (noun)
  The noun MALMSEY has 1 sense:

1. sweet Madeira wine

  Familiarity information: MALMSEY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALMSEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sweet Madeira wine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("malmsey" is a kind of...):

Madeira (an amber dessert wine from the Madeira Islands)

Holonyms ("malmsey" is a substance of...):

malvasia (grape used to make malmsey wine)

 Context examples 

“That means a quart of the best malmsey in Southampton this very night, Matthew Atwood. Art sure that he is dead?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet ignorance may be more precious than wisdom, for Alleyne as he walked on braced himself to a higher life by the thought of this other's sacrifice, and strengthened himself by his example which he could scarce have done had he known that the Hospitaller's mind ran more upon malmsey than on Mamelukes, and on venison rather than victories.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)