Xeres, a town in Spain, 14 m. NE. of Cadiz, a well-built, busy town, and the centre of the trade in sherry wine, which takes its name from it, and of which there are large stores.
Population (circa 1900) given as 61,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Xenophon * Xerxes