alicantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

alicant (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 alicants)

1. A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed, said to have been made near Alicante in Spain.
   • 1626 February 1 (licensing date)​, John Fletcher [et al.], “The Faire Maide of the Inne”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, かつ the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     he used nothing but butter'd beer, coloured with Alligant, for all kinds of maladies

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:

     , New York, 2001, p.223:

     All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like […]