alicant

plural alicants · alternative alligant

1. countableobsoleteuncountableA kind of wine said to have been made near Alicante in Spain.

   he used nothing but butter'd beer, coloured with Alligant, for all kinds of maladies

   1626 February 1 (licensing date; Gregorian calendar), 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)

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   All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like […]

   1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 223

1. obsoleteObsolete form of Alicante: a city and province of Valencia, Spain.