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beeswing

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Frombee +‎-s- +‎wing.

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beeswing (usuallyuncountable,pluralbeeswings)

  1. A filmy, translucent crust found inport and other oldwines which have been bottled-aged for a long time.
    • 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle,The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, Norton, published2005, page1170:
      The three glasses were grouped together, all of them tinged with wine, and one of them containing some dregs ofbeeswing.
  2. Cream of tartar;potassium bitartrate; the residual salt oftartaric acid.

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