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- noun a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean to the west of Morocco; the group forms an autonomous region of Portugal
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Examples
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Gosto muito do acento de chá com madeiras de Au The Rouge by Bvlgari.
Tea and Perfume: Time is of Essence Ayala Sender 2009
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He abstained from the madeiras and ports which were passed about at brief intervals by the swinging coloured women in their gay frocks and white turbans; but he was intoxicated, nevertheless, and more than once on the point of leaving the house.
The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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The stock of fine wines, notably madeiras, for which the South was famous, did not all go to the hospitals.
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I found Canary bearing the same relation to madeira as marsala bears to sherry: the best specimens almost equalled the second - or third-rate madeiras.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Livers of geese, forced to an unnatural size by cramming the unhappy bird with figs; and turbot fricasseed in cream, and peacocks stuffed with truffles, were on the board of Catiline that day, as on the boards of many another noble Roman; and the wines by which these rare dainties were diluted, differed but little, as wisest critics say, from the madeiras and the sherries of the nineteenth century.
The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832
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Riper styles include the best Hungarian tokaji, Italy's vin santo and Southern French muscats, but the real heavyweights are Australian liqueur muscats, tawny ports, malmsey madeiras, sticky sherries…
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Susy Atkins 2011
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O saxofone tenor é um instrumento de sopro, de palheta simples, da família das madeiras.
WN.com - Articles related to La Bourse de Tokyo finit en baisse de 1,96% 2010
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Apesar da construção do seu Corpus ser de metal com sistema de chaves, a origem do som reside numa palheta, (fina lãmina de madeira), daí enquadrar-se na família das madeiras.
WN.com - Articles related to La Bourse de Tokyo finit en baisse de 1,96% 2010
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O saxofone tenor é um instrumento de sopro, de palheta simples, da família das madeiras.
WN.com - Articles related to La Bourse de Tokyo finit en baisse de 1,96% 2010
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Apesar da construção do seu Corpus ser de metal com sistema de chaves, a origem do som reside numa palheta, (fina lãmina de madeira), daí enquadrar-se na família das madeiras.
WN.com - Articles related to La Bourse de Tokyo finit en baisse de 1,96% 2010
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