beeswingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈbiːzwɪŋ/

名詞

beeswing (usually uncountable, plural beeswings)

1. (wine) A filmy, translucent crust found in port and other old wines which have been bottled-aged for a long time.
   • 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, Norton, published 2005, page 1170:

     The three glasses were grouped together, all of them tinged with wine, and one of them containing some dregs of beeswing.

2. Cream of tartar; potassium bitartrate; the residual salt of tartaric acid.

派生語

アナグラム

• beswinge