MEDOC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Medoc mean? 

• MEDOC (noun)
  The noun MEDOC has 1 sense:

1. red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France

  Familiarity information: MEDOC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDOC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("Medoc" is a kind of...):

red wine (wine having a red color derived from skins of dark-colored grapes)

Bordeaux; Bordeaux wine (any of several red or white wines produced around Bordeaux, France or wines resembling them)

Holonyms ("Medoc" is a substance of...):

Sauvignon grape (small blue-black grape of Medoc region of France highly prized in winemaking)

 Context examples 

On the eve of the contest the peasants flocked in from the whole district of the Medoc, and the fields beyond the walls were whitened with the tents of those who could find no warmer lodging.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here came the merchandise of all the fair countries which are watered by the Garonne and the Dordogne—the cloths of the south, the skins of Guienne, the wines of the Medoc—to be borne away to Hull, Exeter, Dartmouth, Bristol or Chester, in exchange for the wools and woolfels of England.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Know then that if these rows were dug up the wealth of the country would be gone, and mayhap there would be dry throats and gaping mouths in England, for in three months' time these black roots will blossom and shoot and burgeon, and from them will come many a good ship-load of Medoc and Gascony which will cross the narrow seas.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then came archers of the guard, shrill-voiced women of the camp, English pages with their fair skins and blue wondering eyes, dark-robed friars, lounging men-at-arms, swarthy loud-tongued Gascon serving-men, seamen from the river, rude peasants of the Medoc, and becloaked and befeathered squires of the court, all jostling and pushing in an ever-changing, many-colored stream, while English, French, Welsh, Basque, and the varied dialects of Gascony and Guienne filled the air with their babel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)