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Webster 1913 Edition


Beeswing

Bees′wingˊ

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Noun.
The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.

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beeswing

beeswing

English

Noun

beeswing (usually uncountable, plural beeswings)

  1. a filmy, translucent crust found in port and other old wines which have been bottled-aged for a long time
    • 1904: The three glasses were grouped together, all of them tinged with wine, and one of them containing some dregs of beeswing. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Abbey Grange’ (Norton 2005, p.1170)