MUSCATEL Definition & Meaning

muscatel

[ muhs-kuh-tel, muhs-kuh-tel ]

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noun

a sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
a muscat grape.
a raisin made from muscat grapes.

muscatel

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noun

Also calledmuscat a rich sweet wine made from muscat grapes
the grape or raisin from a muscat vine

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of muscatel¹

1350–1400; < Middle French, equivalent to muscat muscat + -el noun suffix; replacing Middle English muscadel ( le ) < Middle French, equivalent to muscad- (< Old Provençal muscade, feminine of muscat musky) + -elle, feminine of -el noun suffix

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of muscatel¹

C14: from Old French muscadel, from Old Provençal, from moscadel, from muscat musky. See musk

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The wine hasn’t been fashionable, perhaps because of its lean profile and the similarity in name to muscat, or moscato, and muscatel.

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You’d get a better sense of resale political sentiment by listening to hobos arguing over the end of a bottle of muscatel.

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He is a quiet man, who loves golf the way a wino loves muscatel.

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“More delicious than a thousand kisses, milder than muscatel wine,” Johann Sebastian Bach writes, in his “Coffee Cantata,” from the eighteenth century.

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And the orange cake was light and paired with muscatel.

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