Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sherry .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Sherry.
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- noun Obsolete form of
sherry .
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Examples
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The Lorelei is my sherris ; Ibibio shall not want.
23rd Psaltery Bobbi Lurie 2011
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Hereof comes it that Prince Harry is valiant; for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father, he hath, like lean, sterile and bare land, manured, husbanded and tilled with excellent endeavour of drinking good and good store of fertile sherris, that he is become very hot and valiant.
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A good sherris sack hath a two-fold operation in it.
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Many of the games and ceremonials of Christmas have entirely disappeared, and, like the sherris sack of old Falstaff, are become matters of speculation and dispute among commentators.
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He was dressed formally: high-collared, open-necked shirt of sherris-silk, stiff with silver embroidery at the cuffs and neck-band; white velvet, square-necked tunic banded with silver bullion at hem and neck, skintight sherris-silk leggings and equally tight silver-encrusted boots to display his fine legs to best advantage.
The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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And then, why, I've a few bottles of Geldino's sherris that -- that I'll not open save on the rarest occasion.
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She touched his shoulder lightly and added: "If my father calls for wine, later -- later, mind you, we'll have the sherris, Geldino's own."
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And in Geldino's sherris, opened by Marmaduke Bass, Lindley only repeated a former toast, offered in the same place; for, with laughing eyes on Judith's, he said:
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Falstaff calls it _sherris sack_, and also _sherris_ only, using in fact both names indiscriminately
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Twill tell thee -- the cavaliers drink lustily, and of claret and sherris with spice, whereas, it is true, the elect chiefly do affect ale.
Cromwell Alfred B. Richards
bilby commented on the word sherris
"A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it, makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. The second property of your excellent sherris is the warming of the blood, which, before cold and settled, left the liver white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice. But the sherris warms it and makes it course from the inwards to the parts extremes."
- William Shakespeare, 'Henry IV'.
March 3, 2009
rolig commented on the word sherris
Nice. This makes me wonder if sherry is a back-formation (from sherris, from vino de Jerez Xeres'>Xeres).
March 3, 2009