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Calcavella

Calcavella noun: a sweet wine from Portugal.

Noun

Calcavella (countable and uncountable, plural Calcavellas)

  1. A sweet wine from Portugal.
    • I was better in the evening when the company was gone, and liked some calcavella which we had after supper.1793, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 223

Forms of Calcavella

pluralCalcavellas
alternative formCalcavellos
alternative formCarcavellos
alternative formCarcavelhos

Origin of Calcavella

So called from the district of Carcavelhos.

Questions about Calcavella

What does Calcavella mean?
Calcavella means a sweet wine from Portugal.
What part of speech is Calcavella?
Calcavella is a noun.
What is the plural of Calcavella?
The plural of Calcavella is Calcavellas.

Words near Calcavella in the dictionary

  1. calcating
  2. calcation
  3. calcations
  4. calcatories
  5. calcatory
  6. Calcavella
  7. Calcavellas
  8. Calcavellos
  9. calcaxonian
  10. calcaxonians
  11. calcdoku

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