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Definition of Amontillados
1. amontillado [n] - See also: amontillado
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amontillados
Literary usage of Amontillados
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Cheap Wines from France, Italy, Austria, Greece and Hungary by Robert Druitt (1865)
"... and amontillados (reckoned among sherries) so low as 14 to 17; ... Some fine
amontillados and Manzanillas answer to the strength of natural ..."
2. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1879)
"... along the sides of which are ranged, in triple tiers, 3000 butts of wine in
soleras, including finos of from five to forty years of age, amontillados ..."
3. Spain of the Spanish by Janie Villiers-Wardell (1909)
"To the visitor the tasting of these delicious wines—these amontillados and Olorosos
and Manzanillas, in their varied shades of brown and amber and gold—is ..."
4. The Land of the Blessed Virgin: Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by William Somerset Maugham (1920)
"... wines more than a century old, of which the odour is more delicate than violets;
new wines of the preceding year, strong and rough; amontillados, ..."
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