sherry

[ sher-ee ]

/ ˈʃɛr i /

a fortified, amber-colored wine of southern Spain or any of various similar wines made elsewhere.

Origin of sherry

1590–1600; back formation from sherris, construed as a plural

Sherry

[ sher-ee ]

/ ˈʃɛr i /

a female given name, form of Charlotte.

Well, the sherry allows more flavor to come out of the wood than could otherwise be extracted.

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The next thing I remember was waking up in his bed back at the Sherry, naked.

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Sherry is a wine of many styles and narratives, and Angelou appreciated challenge.

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Closing his interview with Angelou, Plimpton wondered how sherry influenced her rituals after finishing a project.

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What makes it so good, and where should the sherry virgin begin?

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Carrie arranged for some sherry and port wine to be placed on the drawing-room sideboard, with some glasses.

The Diary of a Nobody |George Grossmith
So instead of sherry with the soup, they ordered the intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana."

As Seen By Me |Lilian Bell
On the table was the sherry which had been so perseveringly pressed on me at the last interview, and by it a new pound cake.

Basil |Wilkie Collins
Taken either in a goblet of sherry or in a mug of rum, or in half a pint of whisky, it never failed to revive his energies.

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Indeed, I think half a bottle would be too much; you should not give the girls a liking for sherry, it may lead to bad results.

A Book of Ghosts |Sabine Baring-Gould

sherry

/ (ˈʃɛrɪ) /

a fortified wine, originally from the Jerez region in S Spain, usually drunk as an apéritif

C16: from earlier sherris (assumed to be plural), from Spanish Xeres, now Jerez