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Amontillado

noun
1.
Pale medium-dry sherry from Spain.





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"Amontillado" Quotes from Famous Books



... private chapels and confessors; and yet others were giving "progressive dinners," moving from one restaurant to another—a cocktail and blue-points at Sherry's, a soup and Madeira at Delmonico's, some terrapin with amontillado at the ...
— The Metropolis • Upton Sinclair
... men had the house entirely to themselves, and Bruce ordered about the servants with royal energy. Soon after their arrival they sat down to a choice dinner, and Bruce took care, although the champagne had been abundant at dinner, to pass pretty freely, at dessert, the best claret and amontillado of his father's cellars. Hazlet was not slow to follow the example which the others set him; he helped himself plentifully to everything, and after dinner, lolling in an easy attitude, copied from Fitzurse, he even ventured to exhibit his very recently acquired accomplishment ...
— Julian Home • Dean Frederic W. Farrar


Words linked to "Amontillado" :   sherry


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