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Calcavella
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English
Alternative forms
en Calcavellos Carcavellos Carcavelhos
Etymology
So called from the district of Carcavelhos.
Noun
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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.
en Wines