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MAY WINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does May wine mean?
• MAY WINE (noun)
The noun MAY WINE has 1 sense:
1. a punch made of Moselle and sugar and sparkling water or champagne flavored with sweet woodruff
Familiarity information: MAY WINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A punch made of Moselle and sugar and sparkling water or champagne flavored with sweet woodruff
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("May wine" is a kind of...):
punch (an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl)
Meronyms (substance of "May wine"):
Asperula odorata; fragrant bedstraw; Galium odoratum; sweet woodruff; waldmeister; woodruff (Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula)
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