rumney
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See also: Rumney
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Derived from Romania, at that time a common name for Greece and the southern Balkans, the lands of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Noun[edit]
rumney (countable and uncountable, plural rumneys)
- A form of Greek wine popular in England and Europe during the 14th to 16th centuries.
- 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:, 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 […]