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Definition of Amontillado
1. Noun. Pale medium-dry sherry from Spain.
Definition of Amontillado
1. n. A dry kind of cherry, of a light color.
Definition of Amontillado
1. Noun. a type of Spanish wine; a pale, dry sherry ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amontillado
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Amontillado
Literary usage of Amontillado
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern Writers: Selections in Prose and Verse by William Peterfield Trent (1905)
""amontillado? A pipe? Impossible! And in the middle of the carnival!" " I have
my doubts," I replied; " and I was silly enough to pay the full amontillado ..."
2. American Familiar Verse, Vers de Société by Brander Matthews (1904)
"amontillado [In a rhythm of Mr. Thackeray] RAFTERS black with smoke, White with
sand the floor is, Twenty whiskered Dons Calling to Dolores — Tawny flower ..."
3. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"THE CASK OF amontillado By permission of HS Stone and Company. (ROME) THE thousand
injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured ..."
4. English Composition in Theory and Practice by Henry Seidel Canby, Frederick Erastus Pierce, Henry Noble MacCracken, Alfred Arundel May, Thomas Goddard Wright (1912)
"THE CASK OF amontillado' EDGAR ALLAN Pox The thousand injuries of Fortunato I
had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. ..."
5. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Newly Collected and Edited, with a Memoir by Edgar Allan Poe (1894)
"... THE CASK OF amontillado (ROME) 1 HE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne
as I best could ; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. ..."
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