Sherry Synonyms

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Synonyms for Sherry

fino
The driest and palest type of traditional sherry.
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wine
(Uncountable) A dark purplish red colour; the colour of red wine.
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brandy
A similar liquor distilled from the fermented juice of a specified fruit
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oloroso
A type of sherry, darker and smoother than fino sherry, used as a base for sweetened sherries.
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amoroso
A male lover.
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port
A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal.
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Words Related to Sherry

red-wine
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whiskey
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whisky
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liqueur
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vodka
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gin
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cognac
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Sherry Sentence Examples

  • Madeira, like sherry and port, is a fortified wine.

  • The olives and white wine of Aguilar are celebrated in Spain, although the wine, which somewhat resembles sherry, is known as Montilla, from the adjacent town of that name.

  • Among objects used are a pool of ink in the hand (Egypt), the liver of an animal (tribes of the North-West Indian frontier), a hole filled with water (Polynesia), quartz crystals (the Apaches and the Euahlayi tribe of New South Wales), a smooth slab of polished black stone (the Huille-che of South America), water in a vessel (Zulus and Siberians), a crystal (the Incas), a mirror (classical Greece and the middle ages), the finger-nail, a swordblade, a ring-stone, a glass of sherry, in fact almost anything.

  • The great bulk of sherry shipped to the United Kingdom is blended.

  • The early form of the word in English was "sherris" (abbreviated from "sherris-wine" or "sherris-sack"), which was taken to be a plural, and "sherry" was formed as a singular by mistake.

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