DFDa pale or darkbrown strong wine, originally from Spain 雪利酒〔原产于西班牙的一种白色或深褐色烈性酒〕
Examples from the Corpus
sherry• Add gin and sherry and carefully ignite.• As a result of these processes, madeira wine gained qualities which made it a rival of port and sherry.• This particular whisky is aged in oakbarrels used previously for sherry.• Old Crumwallis said I could have a glass of sherry.• Well, I shall have a small sherry.• He's off abroad or swiggingsherry in some London drawing-room.• He accepted them without noticing them or where he was, because of the naturalness of it and the sherry on top of shock.• This sherrytreatment is not merely for VIPs.
Originsherry
(1500-1600)sherris“sherry”((16-18 centuries)), from Xeres (now Jerez), city in southwestern Spain