Noun: brandywine
| Singular | brandywine |
| Plural | brandywines |
Sample Sentences
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Socks dipt in Brandy-wine, and worn, are preventive. [1676, Richard Wiseman, “Of Tumours: Of Pernio”, in Eight Chirurgical Treatises, Book I, Ch. XIII:]
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Running round the woodlump if you chance to find
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Little barrels, roped and tarred, all full of brandy-wine,
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Don't you shout to come and look, nor use 'em for your play.
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Put the brishwood back again—and they'll be gone next day! [1906, Rudyard Kipling, A Smuggler's Song:]
Nouns inflected like brandywine
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch brandewijn. Doublet of brännvin. See: Dutch Nouns '
brandewijn'.