brown bastard

English

Noun

brown bastard (plural brown bastards)

1. (obsolete) A type of sweet wine.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p. 223:

     All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like [...].