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malvesey

US/ˈmælvəzi/

malvesey is the alternative form of malvoisie.

Meaning of malvoisie

Noun

malvoisie (countable and uncountable, plural malvoisies)

  1. Synonym of malmsey (“wine”).
    • Now this Malvoisie has a body, and slips down the red lane with an unctuous savour; […]1852, The Royalist and the Republican, volume 1, page 108
    Synonyms:
    malmsey

Forms of malvesey

pluralmalveseys

Questions about malvesey

What is malvesey the alternative form of?
Malvesey is the alternative form of malvoisie.
How do you pronounce malvesey?
Malvesey is pronounced /ˈmælvəzi/ (US).

Words near malvesey in the dictionary

  1. malversations
  2. malverse
  3. malvertisement
  4. malvertisements
  5. malvertising
  6. malvesey
  7. malveseys
  8. malvesie
  9. malvesies
  10. malveuille
  11. malveuilled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: malvesey (page history and authors); malvoisie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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