brandywine, noun

Origin:
Dutch, British EnglishShow more Calque formed on Dutch brandewijn, see brandewyn. Also found in British English until the end of the 17th century.
obs.
brandewyn sense 1.
1804 R. Percival Acct of Cape of G.H. 205When he drinks he constantly uses that poisonous hot spirit called brandy-wine, or geneva when he can procure it.
a1823 J. Ewart Jrnl (1970) 15From the refuse of the wine press, a strong spirit is distilled called brandy wine, in general use by the boors and the farmers.
a1827 D. Carmichael in W.J. Hooker Botanical Misc. (1831) II. 274When a boor has returned from Capetown with a cask of brandywine, which he seldom forgets, the news spreads like wildfire.
1829 C. Rose Four Yrs in Sn Afr. 116The boors left a half aum (a cask) of brandy wine in the bush, and we drank it, and the rest drank more than I did, and got drunk.
1834 W.H.B. Webster Narr. of Voy. to Sn Atlantic Ocean 279They asserted with the most innocent faces imaginable, that they had only been drinking ‘the bloom-sucker’s health in a glass of brandy-wine; for he was a brave, good man.’
a1862 J. Ayliff Jrnl of ‘Harry Hastings’ (1963) 83She told the shopman to give us a little refreshment out of some decanters of brandywine which stood on the counter.
1939 S. Cloete Watch for Dawn 42To make this feast there had been a great killing: of oxen, of sheep, of goats; of chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys...There was wine and brandywine and peach brandy.
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