Calcavella
English
Alternative forms
- Calcavellos
- Carcavelhos
Etymology
So called from the district of Carcavelhos.
Noun
Calcavella (countable and uncountable, plural Calcavellas)
- A sweet wine from Portugal.
- 1793, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 223:
- I was better in the evening when the company was gone, and liked some calcavella which we had after supper.
- 1793, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 223: