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noun (uncountable)
  1. a filmy, translucent crust found in port and other old wines which have been bottled-aged for a long time
  • 1904: The three glasses were grouped together, all of them tinged with wine, and one of them containing some dregs of . " Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" (Norton 2005, p.1170)
Etymology: From bee + "s + wing.


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