dessert wine
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3.7
- noun
- /dɪˈzɜrt waɪn/
:
vino de postre
- We enjoyed a lovely dessert wine with our chocolate cake after dinner.
- a sweet dessert wine
- Moscato dessert wine
- a fortified dessert wine
Examples
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Dessert wine is out.
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He stayed at the party another half-hour, walked around, had a selection of desserts and a semisweet dessert wine, which was so good he had two more glasses of it, and at the dessert wine table chatted briefly with a few people about nothing, really.
Fiction book (2002) -
- Moscato's a dessert wine.
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Pamela was taking entirely too long with the dessert wine.
Fiction book (2001) -
Dessert wine is out.
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The only alcoholic drinks I've ever tasted that really, truly made me wish I could drink have been mead and a dessert wine called Bug Juice.
Blog text (30) -
But if you've had a fair amount of wine with the meal, a good low-alcohol dessert wine would be a Boeri Moscato d'Asti from Italy.
Blog text (18) -
Instead of admitting that he didn't know anything about wine, Bucky clutched, as he called it, and ordered a Sauternes, a sweet dessert wine that cost a fortune.
Fiction book (2002) -
He stayed at the party another half-hour, walked around, had a selection of desserts and a semisweet dessert wine, which was so good he had two more glasses of it, and at the dessert wine table chatted briefly with a few people about nothing, really.
Fiction book (2002) -
Native there, muscadines are grown commercially and used to make juices, jams, jellies, preserves, sauces or glazes, and what's been described as an "excellent dessert wine."
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
A sweet drink made from grapes dried on straw mats or in the sun
Antonyms
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sweet wine served with dessert' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'dessert' (the final sweet course) with 'wine' (an alcoholic beverage); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a wine associated with dessert. This noun-noun composition is a common, productivity pattern with close equivalents in many languages, reinforcing its immediate comprehensibility.
Etymology
The compound noun dessert wine comes from the simple image of dessert and wine being served together 'at the end of a meal'. Because sweet wines match sweet food, the name came to mean 'a sweet wine served after a meal'.