alicant
(ælɪˈkænt, in 17th c. ˈælɪkənt)
Forms: 6 alycaunt, alle-, aligaunte, 6–7 alle-, 7 ale-, alligant, 7– alicant(e.
A kind of wine made at Alicante in Spain.
| c 1500 Col. Blowbol in Halliwell Nugæ Poet. 10 Rede wyn..and Alycaunt, in whom I delite. 1547 Recorde Judic. Ur. 36 b, Darke red wyne, and Allegaunte. 1604 Dekker Honest Wh. i. i, You'll blood three pottles of Aligant. 1625 [Beaum. & Fl.] Maid of Inn iv. ii, Butter'd beer, coloured with Alligant [cf. Shakespeare Merry Wives ii. ii. 69]. 1626 Bacon Sylva §56 Bedew it with a little Sack or Alegant. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Alicante, where great store of Mulberries grow, the juyce whereof makes the true Alicant wine. 1693 W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 68 Aligant or Alicant, wine. |