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Lisbon. World English Historical Dictionary

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Lisbon. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1903, rev. 2024. Lisbon The name of the capital of Portugal. [= Pg. Lisboa.] Hence: a. A white wine produced in the province of Estremadura in Portugal and imported from Lisbon; also Lisbon wine. † b. A kind of soft sugar. c. A kind of lemon.

1   Lisbon cut, a kind of brilliant cut, the same as ‘double brilliant’ (1874 Knight, Dict. Mech., 384/2). Lisbon diet-drink (see quot. 1854–67 s.v. DIET-DRINK).

2 1767.  Mrs. Glasse, Cookery, 368. Take one pound of the best Lisbon sugar.

3 1767.  Hugh Kelly, Babler, No. 41. I. 173. A Vintner who owed me a hundred pounds for some Lisbons (for you must know I am a wine-merchant).

4 1769.  Mrs. Raffald, Eng. Housekpr. (1778), 42. Put to it a glass of Lisbon wine.

5 1799.  M. Underwood, Treat. Dis. Children (ed. 4), III. 125. A little Lisbon sugar may be added to this compound of sugar and milk.

6 1818.  Todd, Lisbon. 1. A kind of white wine. 2. A kind of soft sugar.

7 1897.  Beatrice Harraden, Hilda Strafford, 133. Robert went to a lemon-nursery and bought five hundred Lisbons, budded on the sour root.

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