Definition of "sherry" [sher•ry]

• A fortified Spanish wine ranging from very dry to sweet and from amber to brown. (noun)
• A similar wine made elsewhere. (noun)

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• "He could never tell Madeira from sherry, -- nay, an Oriental friend having sent him a butt of _sheeraz_, when he {p. 253} remembered the circumstance some time afterwards, and called for a bottle to have Sir John Malcolm's opinion of its quality, it turned out that his butler, mistaking the label, had already served up half the bin as _sherry_."
• "The term sherry is derived from the name of the town where it is made: Jerez de la Frontera, which, along with Sanlúcar de Barrameda and Puerto de Santa María, forms a triangle in southwestern Spain."
• "Madrid maintains that the term sherry can only be applied to wine made in the region of Jerez in southern Spain."