beeswing
noun/ˈbiːzwɪŋ/
Etymology From bee + -s- + wing.
1
Beverages, Food, Lifestyle, Oenology, Wine Usually A filmy, translucent crust found in port and other old wines which have been bottled-aged for a long time.
- The three glasses were grouped together, all of them tinged with wine, and one of them containing some dregs of beeswing.1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, Norton, published 2005, page 1170:
2
Usually Cream of tartar; potassium bitartrate; the residual salt of tartaric acid.
- Derived terms
- beeswinged