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Webster 1913 Edition
Beeswing
Bees′wingˊ
,Noun.
The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.
Definition 2024
beeswing
beeswing
English
Noun
beeswing (usually uncountable, plural beeswings)
- a filmy, translucent crust found in port and other old wines which have been bottled-aged for a long time
- 1904: The three glasses were grouped together, all of them tinged with wine, and one of them containing some dregs of beeswing. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Abbey Grange’ (Norton 2005, p.1170)