sherry
pronunciation
How to pronounce sherry in British English:
UK [ˈʃeri]
How to pronounce sherry in American English:
US [ˈʃɛri]
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- Noun:
- dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif
Word Origin
- sherry
- sherry: [16] Various sorts of dryish or sweetened white wine known as sack (etymologically ‘dry wine’) were imported into England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Many came from Spain, and the sort made around Xerez (now Jerez) in southern Spain was called in English (in an approximation to the Spanish pronunciation of Xerez) sherris sack. Before the end of the 16th century this had been reduced to sherry, which in due course came to be applied to the fortified Spanish wine that now goes by that name.
- sherry (n.)
- kind of white wine, c. 1600, mistaken singular from sherris (1530s), from Spanish (vino de) Xeres "(wine from) Xeres," modern Jerez (Roman (urbs) Caesaris) in Spain, near the port of Cadiz, where the wine was made.
Example
- 1. 1 Tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar or sherry vinegar
- 2. The wines were supplied by todd ruby , a silver spring-based broker whose extensive portfolio includes lustau , a leading sherry bodega .
- 3. He was blessed instead with chicken stocks and herbs and sherry .
- 4. But with sherry 's wide variety of styles and chinese cuisine 's delicious diversity , there are endless combinations to explore .
- 5. 20th Century sherry exports rise dramatically from 1944 to 1970 , but then decline as it goes out of fashion .