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white wine

noun

  1. wine having a yellowish to amber color derived from the light-colored grapes used in production, or from dark grapes whose skins, pulp, and seeds have been removed before fermentation.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of white wine1

1250–1300; Middle English; compare French vin blanc

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Example Sentences

The most famous white wine grape on the island is the Assyrtiko.

A third, and least esteemed, method is to simply blend red and white wine.

Until I saw Erin drinking a glass of white wine at the office happy hour.

Cold white wine would somehow emanate from its own spring just outside the door.

Place white wine, chicken bones, and boxed chicken broth into a pot large enough to hold all of them.

He poured her out a glass of the delicate white wine; she thanked him with a smile and drank it.

Bishop Swinfield's vineyard at Ledbury yielded seven pipes of white wine and nearly one of verjuice in the autumn of 1289.

The dinner was superb and they had an Austrian white wine that never finds its way into the channels of commerce.

It was a white wine, strong and superior, and it went to one's head with alarming facility.

Galen, from his own experience, recommends powdered agaric, of which he frequently gave one scruple in white wine.

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