Calcavella

English

Alternative forms

• Calcavellos
• Carcavelhos

Etymology

So called from the district of Carcavelhos.

Noun

Calcavella (countable and uncountable, plural Calcavellas)

1. 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.