saturnous
Appearance
Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Saturne + -ous, from Latin Sāturnus.
Adjective
[edit]saturnous
- (of wine) Rich in flavour; full-bodied.
- 1450, Diseases of Women(2):
- Beth they war of metes that encresith sede..& suche metis ben..stronge, swete wyne & saturnous; and good wyne þat is myghty & swete, bothe whit & rede.
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “sā̆turnǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 June 2018.