0 a type of strong wine from southern Spain that is a pale yellow or brown colour, sometimes drunk before a meal:
1 a type of strong wine, usually brown in color, originally from Spain
This became a nightly ritual, as the front door was left open for him and the lady provided a glass of sherry at each performance.
There were trays on which stood sherry glasses filled with water.
All the proper protocol of programmes, including sherry at private views and mounted exhibitions, gave older people opportunities they may never have had before.
Perhaps if it is late in the evening he might stretch to a glass of sherry.
Among a number of other interesting facts, the article drew attention to the extraordinarily high rate of retailers' profit in the sherry trade.
That is why he can afford to be so relaxed about solving the sherry and port issue.
We should leave the economists to their log fires and their sherries.
On a similar measure of imported sherry the duty and tax amount to about 8·2p.
