rumney

See also: Rumney

English

Alternative forms

• romney

Etymology

Derived from Romania, at that time a common name for Greece and the southern Balkans, the lands of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Noun

rumney (countable and uncountable, plural rumneys)

1. A form of Greek wine popular in England and Europe during the 14th to 16th centuries.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , 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 […]