beeswing
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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, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, Norton, published 2005, page 1170:
- The three glasses were grouped together, all of them tinged with wine, and one of them containing some dregs of beeswing.
- Cream of tartar; potassium bitartrate; the residual salt of tartaric acid.