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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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