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Bastard

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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.”—Sir Walter Scott: Kenilworth, chap. iii.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Basilian Monks
Basilica
Basilics
Basilidians
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Basilisk
Basket
Basochians
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Bastard
Baste
Bastille
Bastinado
Bastion (A)
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