Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Greek white or rosé wine flavored with pine resin.
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- noun uncountable A
Greek resinated white orrosé wine of a sort that has been produced for at least 2700 years.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Greek wine flavored with resin
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Here are largish beachfront hotels, and restaurants serving ubiquitous feta salad or deep-fried calamari drenched in lemon juice, washed down with retsina.
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Here are largish beachfront hotels, and restaurants serving ubiquitous feta salad or deep-fried calamari drenched in lemon juice, washed down with retsina.
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We're told that the Greeks have only themselves to blame: They retire too early, drink too much retsina and often break into dance without warning .... all on borrowed money.
Les Leopold: Help! What's the Cure for Financial Insanity? 2010
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They have already laid aside their other laughter, that of mothers braiding their daughters 'hair, or of the dance steps of the plump-faced girls tumbling to their first retsina at the age of three.
The Dance Begins 2010
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It played Guantanamera and had plastic awningsseparating us from the road, but served the most delicious fried courgettes, pork souvlaki and local Robola white wine (no need for retsina here: Kefalonia produces Greece's best wine, a legacy of the Venetians).
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We're told that the Greeks have only themselves to blame: They retire too early, drink too much retsina and often break into dance without warning .... all on borrowed money.
Les Leopold: Help! What's the Cure for Financial Insanity? 2010
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Known as dolmades in Greece and simply as vine leaves elsewhere, it's probably no accident that leaves of the grape vine are used in this manner in a region not noted for the quality of its wines; quality sometimes so poor that the Greeks came to add pine resin to certain wines retsina and thought it an improvement!
At My Table 2009
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Known as dolmades in Greece and simply as vine leaves elsewhere, it's probably no accident that leaves of the grape vine are used in this manner in a region not noted for the quality of its wines; quality sometimes so poor that the Greeks came to add pine resin to certain wines retsina and thought it an improvement!
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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I stayed with a Greek family in Athens for a few weeks, where I learned that besides lemon juice, garlic and retsina oh yum!
Because everyone is doing it... mikandra 2008
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Looks like YouTube got their caca together and fixed itself right on time; if it had been otherwise, I could never have brought you the following unique treasure, this retsina for your retinas, this Everclear for your eyeballs, this sulphuric acid for your synapses.
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