sherry

IPA: ʃˈɛri

(uncountable) A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
A variety of sherry.
A glass of sherry.
A female given name from English, from the sherry wine, or a variant of Cheri.
A surname.

Examples of "sherry" in Sentences

An agreement on the terms sherry and porto, drinks from Spain and
Madrid maintains that the term sherry can only be applied to wine made in the region of Jerez in southern Spain.
The accord snagged on the names of fortified wines, with Spain and Portugal insisting South Africa stop using the terms sherry and port for its wines.
You persuaded me to give up that silly drink they call sherry, and drink ale; and what was it but drinking ale which gave me courage to knock down that fellow
But they're also keen on lesser-known wine-producing areas, like Canada's Niagara region, which touts scenic wonders and ice wine, to boot, and European centers that specialize in sherry and port.
The term sherry is derived from the name of the town where it is made: Jerez de la Frontera, which, along with Sanlúcar de Barrameda and Puerto de Santa María, forms a triangle in southwestern Spain.
He could never tell Madeira from sherry, -- nay, an Oriental friend having sent him a butt of _sheeraz_, when he {p. 253} remembered the circumstance some time afterwards, and called for a bottle to have Sir John Malcolm's opinion of its quality, it turned out that his butler, mistaking the label, had already served up half the bin as _sherry_.