Meanings
plural mavrodaphnes · alternative mavrodafni · alternative Mavrodaphne
- uncountableusuallyA dark sweet Greek red wine.
SALTSA MAVRODAPHNI [Sweet mavrodaphne wine sauce] A wonderful use of the superb mavrodaphne wine, very new, very Athenian.
1992, Vilma Chantiles, Food of Greece, page 3471 more example
Silently, in the widow's position of honor at the head of the table, she picked at her whitefish and drank her glass of Mavrodaphne, but her thoughts were as obscured to me as her face behind her black veil.
2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, page 269 - uncountableusuallyA variety of grape native to Achaea, northern Peloponnese, Greece, from which the wine is made.
He^([Gustav Clauss]) established vineyards in the area, using local grapes, especially the “black grape of Dafne,” mavrodaphne. He created the sweet style of mavrodaphne known today.
2012, Joel Butler, Randall Heskett, Divine Vintage: Following the Wine Trail from Genesis to the Modern Age, page 223
Origin
- Greekμαυροδάφνη
- Englishmavrodaphne
From Greek μαυροδάφνη (mavrodáfni), from Medieval Greek μαῦρος (maûros, “dark”) + δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel”) (see also Daphne).
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