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Definition of Marsala
1. Noun. Dark sweet or semisweet dessert wine from Sicily.
Definition of Marsala
1. n. A kind of wine exported from Marsala in Sicily.
Definition of Marsala
1. Proper noun. A town in western Sicily ¹
2. Noun. A fortified wine from Sicily ¹
3. Noun. A sauce made from Marsala wine ¹
4. Noun. (alternative capitalization of Marsala) (sauce). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Marsala
1. a Sicilian wine [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marsala
Literary usage of Marsala
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Italy by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1877)
"30 am, at Marsala at noon, at Trapani 5.30 ... weekly to and from Syracuse touches
regularly at Trapani, and at Marsala and Mazzara alternately (comp. p. ..."
2. Italy : Handbook for Travellers: Third Part, Southern Italy and Sicily, with by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1880)
"From Calatafimi to Trapani, Marsala, and Castelvetrano. ... arrival at Mazzara
9.30 am, at Marsala at noon, at Trapani 5.30 or 6 pm, at Calatafimi 10.30 pm ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In 1844 the newly erected diocese of Marsala was separated from Mazzara. Mazzara is
a suffragan of Palermo, has 23 parishes, 430 priests, 5 religious houses ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"Marsala was Garibaldi's landing place in his expedition to Sicily in May, 1860,
where he disembarked in presence of two Neapolitan war steamers. ..."
5. Sicily, the New Winter Resort: An Encyclopaedia of Sicily by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1907)
"THINGS OF Marsala THE best time to visit Marsala is in winter or spring for the
... Marsala, the Marsa-Allah, the " Harbour of God " of the Saracens, ..."
6. The Making of Italy, 1856-1870 by Patrick Keyes O'Clery (1892)
"At 8 am Garibaldi gave orders to steer for Marsala. Soon the mountains of Sicily
rose like blue masses above the horizon. At noon the coast was clearly ..."
7. Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi by Giuseppe Garibaldi (1889)
"... and proved that the moral revolution was accomplished before " the Thousand"
landed at Marsala. The Sicilians who had refused the " new religion " so ..."
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