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bual

bual noun: a variety of madeira (wine) that is less sweet than malmsey.

Noun (1)

bual (countable and uncountable, plural buals)

  1. A variety of madeira (wine) that is less sweet than malmsey.
    • While most pedestrian Madeira is made from a utilitarian grape, the tinta negra mole, the best blends and vintages are created from one of seven noble grapes. The predominant ones are sercial, verdelho, bual (boal) and malvasia (malmsey). […] Bual offers sustained caramel and smoke and moderate...2002 March 13, Matt Lee, Ted Lee, “On Madeira, Bottled Treasure”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015

Noun (2) capitalized: Bual

Bual (plural Buals)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Boal (“wine grape”).

Forms of bual

pluralbuals
pluralBuals

Origin of bual

From Portuguese boal.

Questions about bual

What does bual mean?
Bual means a variety of madeira (wine) that is less sweet than malmsey.
What part of speech is bual?
Bual is a noun.
What is the plural of bual?
The plural of bual is buals.

Words near bual in the dictionary

  1. BUAF
  2. BUAFs
  3. BUAG
  4. BUAGs
  5. buah duku
  6. bual
  7. Buala
  8. Bualan
  9. buals
  10. buang
  11. buanged

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