plural sherries
: a Spanish fortified wine with a distinctive nutty flavor
also
: a similar wine produced elsewhere
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As guests enjoyed their first course of mixed greens in a sherry vinaigrette, Hedges and James stood to address their guests.
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Ian Malone, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
An older study from 2005 found that spirits with 40% alcohol content will absorb slower into the body, whereas sherry, which has 20% alcohol content, will absorb into the body quickly.
—Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 23 Jan. 2025
The Celine Dijon cocktail, also on NoMad’s drinks menu, is made with sherry, squash juice and pickled mustard and mushroom broth.
—John Kell, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
After those alliums are aromatic and golden brown, deglaze the pot with dry sherry, then add the aforementioned broth and a bay leaf.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Jan. 2025
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Ian Malone, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
An older study from 2005 found that spirits with 40% alcohol content will absorb slower into the body, whereas sherry, which has 20% alcohol content, will absorb into the body quickly.
—Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 23 Jan. 2025
The Celine Dijon cocktail, also on NoMad’s drinks menu, is made with sherry, squash juice and pickled mustard and mushroom broth.
—John Kell, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
After those alliums are aromatic and golden brown, deglaze the pot with dry sherry, then add the aforementioned broth and a bay leaf.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Sherry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sherry. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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Etymology
named for Xeres (now spelled Jerez), a city in Spain where the wine was originally made
Word Origin
It is common to name wines after the part of a country where they are made. The wine called sherry today was first made in a town originally called, in Spanish, Xeres. The English approximation of the Spanish pronunciation was \ˈsher-ēz\, spelled sherris. After a time, people thought that sherris was a plural and so made a singular form, sherry, by cutting off the supposed plural ending. The \sh\ sound symbolized by x in Spanish (later by j) changed to a \ḵ\ or \h\, so that the modern Spanish pronunciation of Jerez is even less like English sherry.
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