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English
Noun
alicant (countable and uncountable, plural alicants)
- (obsolete) A kind of wine said to have been made near Alicante in Spain.
1626 February 1 (licensing date), John Fletcher [et al.], “The Faire Maide of the Inne”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):he used nothing but butter'd beer, coloured with Alligant, for all kinds of maladies
- , New York, 2001, p.223:
- All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like
Translations
a kind of wine made near Alicante, Spain
References
“alicant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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