rumney
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Derived from Romania, at that time a common name for Greece and the southern Balkans, the lands of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Noun
rumney (countable and uncountable, plural rumneys)
- A form of Greek wine popular in England and Europe during the 14th to 16th centuries.
- Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly, New York, 2001, p.223:
- All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like […]
- Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly, New York, 2001, p.223: