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a⋅mon⋅til⋅la⋅do

   [uh-mon-tl-ah-doh, -tee-ah-; Sp. ah-mawn-tee-lyah-thaw, -yah-thaw]
–noun
a pale, dry Spanish sherry.
Origin:
1815–25; < Sp, equiv. to a to, near (< L ad) + Montill(a) (see montilla ) + -ado -ate 1
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a·mon·til·la·do     (ə-mŏn'tl-ä'dō, ä-mōn'tē-ä'-)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. a·mon·til·la·dos
A pale dry sherry.


[Spanish : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + Montilla, a town of southern Spain.]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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amontillado 
a variety of sherry wine, 1825, from Sp., from a "from" (from L. ad) + Montilla, name of a town in the province of Cordova.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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amontillado

noun
pale medium-dry sherry from Spain 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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Amontillado

A*mon`til*la"do\, n. [Sp.] A dry kind of cherry, of a light color. --Simmonds.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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