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white wine (countable and uncountable, plural white wines)

1. Light-colored wine (usually yellow with a hint of green but not pink).
   • 2005, Barbara Nowak, Beverly Wichman, The Everything Wine Book:

     In contrast to making red wine, the juice for white wine is fermented without the skins and seeds.

2. (obsolete, slang) Gin.
   • 1820, Thomas Moore, W. Simpkin, R. Marshall, Jack Randall's Diary of Proceedings at the House of Call for Genius:

     Jack Randall then impatient rose, / And said, ‘Tom's speech were just as fine / If he would call that first of goes / By that genteeler name—white wine.'

等位語

• orange wine
• red wine
• rosé wine

参考

• Riesling
• Chardonnay

参照

• (white wine): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Further reading

• white wine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia