Vidonia

English

Alternative forms

• vidonia

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.). The name was commonly used in the 17th century, and has been reintroduced in the modern age

Noun

Vidonia (usually uncountable, plural Vidonias)

1. A high-quality dry white wine of Tenerife.
   • 1863, Richard Francis Burton, Verney Lovett Cameron, To the Gold Coast for Gold:

     The favourite of the Canaries is, or was, the vidonia, a juicy berry, mostly white, seldom black: the same is the case with the muscadels.

References

• “Vidonia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Ovidian