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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Bastard

Any sweetened wine, but more correctly applied to a sweet Spanish wine (white or brown) made of the bastard muscadine grape.

“I will pledge you willingly in a cup of bastard.” —SirWalter Scott: Kenilworth, chap. iii.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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