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mare's teat

mare's teat noun: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mare, teat.

Noun

mare's teat (plural mare's teats)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mare, teat.
  2. A variety of wine grape from the Central Asian oases with distinctively shaped, brownish-purple fruit.
    • Incidentally, a famous wine grape brought in from the Silk Road, still being used to make wine in the Northwest, is called mare's teat (perhaps because of its shape); because in Chinese the same word is used for both "teat" and "milk," it is sometimes incorrectly rendered in English as "kumiss...1999, Catharina Y.W. Ang, Keshun Liu, Yao-Wen Huang, Asian Foods: Science and Technology, →ISBN, page 391
    • They also carried the special mare's teat grapes from the oasis of Khocho (packed in ice in lead containers) and sold luxury goods from the west to the Chinese: Sassanian silverware from Persia which had a huge influence on Chinese silverwork, glass vessels and beads from Syria and Babylon, amber...2004, Frances Wood, The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia, →ISBN, page 67

Examples of mare's teat in a sentence

  • I partied at Aksu until they began to tire of me and started asking whether I wouldn't prefer to pay for my mare's teat grape wine.2009, David Foster, Sons of the Rumour, →ISBN:
  • “I have not tasted mare's teat wine in more than two years,” he said.2010, Guy Gavriel Kay, Under Heaven:
  • 'The finest sweet wine, made from the best mare's teat grapes in Kocho - a valued ally in these troubled times.'2011, Peter Ward, Dragon Horse, →ISBN, page 51:

Forms of mare's teat

pluralmare's teats

Questions about mare's teat

What does mare's teat mean?
Mare's teat means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mare, teat.
How do you use mare's teat in a sentence?
I partied at Aksu until they began to tire of me and started asking whether I wouldn't prefer to pay for my mare's teat grape wine.
What part of speech is mare's teat?
Mare's teat is a noun.
What is the plural of mare's teat?
The plural of mare's teat is mare's teats.

Words near mare's teat in the dictionary

  1. mare's milk
  2. mare's nest
  3. mare's nests
  4. mare's tail
  5. mare's tails
  6. mare's teat
  7. mare's teat grape
  8. mare's teat grapes
  9. mare's teats
  10. mare's-nest
  11. mare's-tail

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