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3 beverage-related (wine, spirits, other) vocab words
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Rhenish
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synonyms: hock ???
tags: [drink]
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Definition:of the Rhine valley in Germany, usually referring specifically to the wine
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VYANND RYAL. XX.IIII. XIX.
Take wyne greke, oþer rynysshe wyne and hony clarified þerwith. take flour of rys powdour of Gyngur oþ of peper & canel. oþer flour of canel. powdour of clowes, safroun. sugur cypre. mylberyes, oþer saundres. & medle alle þise togider. boile it and salt it. and loke þat it be stondyng.
The Master-Cooks of King Richard II. The Forme of Cury (1390)
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the wine was strong enough to cause a mild paralysis of the vocal cords.
“Won—wonderful,” I managed to get out.
Colum nodded. “Aye, that it is. Rhenish, ye know. You’re not familiar with it?”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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HAMLET The King doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels; And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out The triumph of his pledge.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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The window was open to the March night and the weedy Rhenish smell of the river soaked into the room,
Irwin Shaw. Rich Man, Poor Man (1959)
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