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 --
My own city is proud to take part in the sherry trade.
Of course, she cannot buy a bottle of sherry, whisky or wine along with the rest of the shopping.
A small glass of light sherry is not a bad stimulus to good driving; in fact it is often a very good stimulus indeed.
The difficulty extends to sherry and port, too.
There are various small sizes in the list of legal capacity measures which are eminently suitable for sherry, vermouth and other similar liquors.
They finished off with sherry trifle and coffee, and the meal was accompanied by various wines costing £63 a case.
In this instance, movements in the price of all wines are at present represented by movements in the prices of sherry.
On a similar measure of imported sherry the duty and tax amount to about 8·2p.
