malvesie

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Noun[edit]

malvesie (countable and uncountable, plural malvesies)

  1. Alternative form of malvoisie
    • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter X, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. [], volume III, Edinburgh: [] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. [], →OCLC, pages 266–267:
      [] our cellarer shall have orders to deliver to thee a butt of sack, a runlet of Malvesie, and three hogsheads of ale of the first strike, yearly—If that will not quench thy thirst, thou must come to court, and become acquainted with my butler.

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

malvesie

  1. Alternative form of malvesye