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- noun Plural form of
Marsala .
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Examples
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You taste wine after wine, in different shades of brown; light wines to drink with your dinner, older wines to drink before your coffee; wines more than a century old, of which the odour is more delicate than violets; new wines of the preceding year, strong and rough; Amontillados, with the softest flavour in the world; Manzanillas for the gouty; Marsalas, heavy and sweet; wines that smell of wild-flowers; cheap wines and expensive wines.
The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919
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A century ago that was pretty much the case, when sweet Hungarian Tokaji, Portuguese Madeira and Port, Spanish sherries, Italian Marsalas and French Sauternes were enjoyed as much with savory dishes as with sweet.
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