plural sherries
: a Spanish fortified wine with a distinctive nutty flavor
also
: a similar wine produced elsewhere
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Most Oban whisky is aged in a combination of bourbon barrels and sherry casks, but is nothing like the new 15-year-old Cask Strength Sherry Cask Finish.
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Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 22 June 2025
At their beloved New York restaurant Via Carota, Italian chefs Jody Williams and Rita Sodi serve a best-selling, not-too-soggy Tuscan-style panzanella salad using aged sherry vinegar, which might be the key to its perfection.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 19 June 2025
Add sherry, and cook, stirring constantly, until liquid is almost completely reduced, about 1 minute.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 15 June 2025
Cook, stirring, until pork is crisp and mixture is very fragrant, about 2 minutes.
Add wine or sherry, soy sauce and chili crisp, and return asparagus to skillet.
—Gretchen McKay, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2025
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Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 22 June 2025
At their beloved New York restaurant Via Carota, Italian chefs Jody Williams and Rita Sodi serve a best-selling, not-too-soggy Tuscan-style panzanella salad using aged sherry vinegar, which might be the key to its perfection.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 19 June 2025
Add sherry, and cook, stirring constantly, until liquid is almost completely reduced, about 1 minute.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 15 June 2025
Cook, stirring, until pork is crisp and mixture is very fragrant, about 2 minutes.
Add wine or sherry, soy sauce and chili crisp, and return asparagus to skillet.
—Gretchen McKay, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for sherry
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“Sherry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sherry. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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Etymology
named for Xeres (now spelled Jerez), a city in Spain where the wine was originally made
Word Origin
It is common to name wines after the part of a country where they are made. The wine called sherry today was first made in a town originally called, in Spanish, Xeres. The English approximation of the Spanish pronunciation was \ˈsher-ēz\, spelled sherris. After a time, people thought that sherris was a plural and so made a singular form, sherry, by cutting off the supposed plural ending. The \sh\ sound symbolized by x in Spanish (later by j) changed to a \ḵ\ or \h\, so that the modern Spanish pronunciation of Jerez is even less like English sherry.
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