tent wine

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tent wine - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tent \Tent\, n. [Sp. tinto, properly, deep-colored, fr. L.
     tinctus, p. p. of tingere to dye. See Tinge, and cf.
     Tint, Tinto.]
     A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or
     Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.
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