Malaga
(ˈmæləgə)
Also 7 malaca, mal(l)igo, mallago(e, -egoe, -igo(e, 8 malago.
The name of a seaport in the south of Spain. Used attrib., as in Malaga raisins, Malaga sack, Malaga wine. Also as n. (short for Malaga wine), a white wine exported from Malaga.
| 1608 Day Law Trickes i. ii. (1881) 21 Ile put al my loue into one quart of Maligo. 1623 J. Taylor (Water P.) Praise Hempseed Wks. (1630) iii. 65/1 Braue Wine Merchants, little were your gaine, By Mallegoes, Canaries Sacke from Spaine. 1623 Middleton & Rowley Span. Gipsy iii. i. (1653) E 1 b, Peter see me shall wash thy nowle, And Malligo Glasses fox thee. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Malaga or Malaca Sack. 1686 Wood Life (O.H.S.) III. 199 Before the warr nothing but sack and mallagoes were drunk and claret not at all. 1698 Phil. Trans. XX. 291 A Grocer's Basket, such as they put up their Malaga Raisins in. 1768 Pigott in Phil. Trans. LXI. 287, I exposed..a wine glass half full of Malaga wine. 1806 A. Hunter Culina (ed. 3) 45 To each gallon put two pounds of Malaga raisins a little chopped. 1887 Pater Imag. Portr. 2 The lad..left untasted the glass of Malaga which was offered to him. |
| Comb. 1898 P. Manson Trop. Diseases ii. 64 His urine has become very dark in colour, perhaps malaga-coloured. |