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Definition of Sherry
1. Noun. Dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif.
Definition of Sherry
1. n. A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down.
Definition of Sherry
1. Proper noun. (English female given name), from the sherry wine, or a variant of Cheri. ¹
2. Noun. A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere. ¹
3. Noun. A variety of sherry. ¹
4. Noun. A glass of sherry. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sherry
1. a type of wine [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sherry
Literary usage of Sherry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1859)
"THE STATISTICS OF sherry. Then we drove back to the high road, and got again on
wines. Did I remember the glass from the Saint Barbara cask, just after the ..."
2. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"Fields was asking the price of a ' quarter-cask of sherry the other day. ...
If yer wa'ant a sherry just sherry to ' " to slop round with it, ..."
3. The Bachelor of the Albany by Marmion Wilard Savage (1848)
"Bound Tables and Square Ones—Claret and sherry—Mr. Barker is excited and ...
THE chop was over—the dry sherry remained upon the small square table. ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the United by Samuel Blatchford (1879)
"630 Quarter Casks of sherry Wine. 630 QUARTER CASKS OP sherry WINE. Casks of wine
were shipped to New York, on a vessel, under a bill of lading which stated ..."
5. Gatherings from Spain by Richard Ford (1846)
"sherry, a wine which requires more explanation than many of its consumers imagine,
is grown in a limited nook of the Peninsula, on the south-western corner ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1896)
"It is thus evident that so far as the alcohol and other volatile substances
present in sherry are concerned, the amount introduced into an artificial ..."
7. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"The dry sherry is the most esteemed. Its flavor partakes of the taste of
leather (called in ... The sherry wines are shipped, for the most part, at Cadiz, ..."
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