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- proper noun An
Italian white wine fromgrapes grown on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Directly across the narrow street, nudged between the encroachments of much newer buildings, an anachronism from the Second Age of Faith, it was the Basilica of Lachryma Christi.
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"Lachryma Christi?" asked Hawbury, in an interrogative tone.
The American Baron James De Mille
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"And the rest of us will sit by the Lachryma Christi, I take it?" said the pastor.
The Machineries of Joy Bradbury, Ray, 1920- 1949
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There is a species of wine made of the grapes of Vesuvius, called 'Lachryma Christi,' that has a great reputation.
The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Charles Edward 1889
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There is something a little shocking to a Yankee mind in the label of Lachryma Christi; but in La Mancha they call fritters the Grace of God.
Castilian Days John Hay 1870
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The ascent is easy at first between walls and the vineyards which produce the celebrated Lachryma Christi.
Saunterings Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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We ate some rolls we had brought in our pockets, and some of the party tried a bottle of the wine that one of the cormorants had brought up, but found it anything but the Lachryma Christi it was named.
Saunterings Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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The ascent is easy at first between walls and the vineyards which produce the celebrated Lachryma Christi.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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We ate some rolls we had brought in our pockets, and some of the party tried a bottle of the wine that one of the cormorants had brought up, but found it anything but the Lachryma Christi it was named.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Salvador brought me a glass of _Lachryma Christi_ and the leg of a chicken; and with recruited spirits we mounted our animals and again started.
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