Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Originally, one of the sparkling wines of Champagne produced at Sillery, a village in the department of Marne: now a mere trade-name having little signification. Compare
champagne . - noun A still white wine produced within a few miles of Rheims.
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Examples
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Did you ever know a woman who could lay her fair hand upon her gentle heart and say on her conscience that she preferred dry sillery to sparkling champagne?
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Then Mr. Grainger would have his man instructed to let the ladies have some tea on board; and he would give Master Harry the key of certain receptacles in which he would find cans of preserved meat, fancy biscuits, jam, and even a few bottles of dry sillery; finally, he would immediately hurry off to see about fishing-rods.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various
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Never was black tea less herb-like; never draught of sillery, quaffed from goblet of rare
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various
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Did you ever know a woman who could lay her fair hand upon her gentle heart and say on her conscience that she preferred dry sillery to sparkling champagne?
The Fitz-Boodle Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
chained_bear commented on the word sillery
"'Will you join me in a glass of sillery?'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 41
February 19, 2008
wmnzuk commented on the word sillery
Expressive glances Shall be our lances,
And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.
– Gilbert and Sullivan, Princess Ida.
October 13, 2012