sherry

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.

   He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.

2. 2
   noun

   A variety of sherry.

   They produce several quality sherries.

3. 3
   noun

   A glass of sherry.

   Would you like a sherry?

4. 4
   noun

   dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere

Back-formation of earlier sherris (interpreted as a plural), from Spanish (vino de) Xeres (“wine of Xeres”), Xeres being the former spelling of Jerez (pronounced /ʃeˈɾes/ in early modern Andalusian Spanish).

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