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muscatel
[muhs-kuh-tel, muhs-kuh-tel]
noun
a sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
a muscat grape.
a raisin made from muscat grapes.
muscatel
/ ˌʌəˈɛ /
noun
Also called: muscat.a rich sweet wine made from muscat grapes
the grape or raisin from a muscat vine
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of muscatel1
Example Sentences
The wine hasn’t been fashionable, perhaps because of its lean profile and the similarity in name to muscat, or moscato, and muscatel.
You’d get a better sense of resale political sentiment by listening to hobos arguing over the end of a bottle of muscatel.
He is a quiet man, who loves golf the way a wino loves muscatel.
“More delicious than a thousand kisses, milder than muscatel wine,” Johann Sebastian Bach writes, in his “Coffee Cantata,” from the eighteenth century.
And the orange cake was light and paired with muscatel.
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