† Roberdavy Obs.
Also 6 Rob Dauie, 7 Rob-o-Dauy.
[Of obscure origin.]
A kind of wine used in the 16–17th centuries.
| 1542 Boorde Dyetary x. (1870) 255 Also these hote wynes, as..caprycke, tynt, roberdauy. 1553 Bale Vocation 22 They went in heaps from tauerne to tauerne to seke after the best Rob dauie and aqua vite, which are their speciall drinkes there. 1620 J. Taylor (Water-P.) Praise Hempseed Wks. (1630) ii. 65 Sherry, nor Rob-o-Dauy here could flowe. |