brown bastard

noun

A type of sweet wine.

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Meanings

nounbrown bastard (countable and uncountable, plural brown bastards)

plural brown bastards

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableA type of sweet wine.

    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
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