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Muscat   /mˈəskæt/   Listen
Muscat

noun
(Written also muskat)
1.
Any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes.  Synonym: muskat.
2.
A port on the Gulf of Oman and capital of the sultanate of Oman.  Synonyms: capital of Oman, Masqat.
3.
Wine from muscat grapes.  Synonyms: muscadel, muscadelle, muscatel.
4.
Sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine.  Synonyms: muscat grape, muscatel.



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"Muscat" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the streets and bazars revealed new scenes, and such a variety of nationalities! As Sir Edwin Arnold has written: "Here are specimens of every race and nation of the East, Arabs from Muscat, Persians from the Gulf, Afghans from the northern frontier, black shaggy negroes from Zanzibar, islanders from the Maldives and Laccadives; Malays and Chinese throng and jostle with Parsees in their sloping hats, with Jews, Lascars, Rajputs, Fakirs, European Sepoys, ...
— Travels in the Far East • Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

... California is very young. To be sure, dried grapes have been known since the time of the Mission Fathers, but the dried mission grape is not a raisin. The men who thirty years ago sent over to Europe for the choicest varieties of wine grapes imported among other cuttings the Muscatel, the Muscat of Alexandria, and the Feher Zagos; the three finest raisin grapes of Spain. But the raisin, like the fig, requires skillful treatment, and for years the California grower made no headway. He read all that had been written on the curing of the raisin; several enterprising men went ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 • Various



Words linked to "Muscat" :   national capital, vinifera grape, Vitis vinifera, vinifera, fortified wine, common grape vine, Sultanate of Oman, port, Oman



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