sherris

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A form of sherry — A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.

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Meanings

nounsherris (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableObsolete form of sherry.

    A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery.

    c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]
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