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Definition of Port wine
1. Noun. Sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal.
Definition of Port wine
1. Noun. A type of fortified wine traditionally made in Portugal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Port Wine
Literary usage of Port wine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1873)
"The mode of making port wine is extremely unclean, and the proceedings lire ...
677, a complete scheme for the reform of the making of port wine is given, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1859)
"Dr. W. commenced by administering four ounces of port wine with twenty drops of
tincture of opium. The patient speedily manifested sigáis of improvement. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"port wine Trade.—The port wine trade is of considerable Ьщ ance to the United
Kingdom not onlv because the chief trade ia ..."
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