rumney

A form of Greek wine popular in England and Europe during the 14th to 16th centuries.

Noun

  1. A form of Greek wine popular in England and Europe during the 14th to 16th centuries.
    • All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like […] - , New York, 2001, p.223

Origin

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

Forms

rumneys romney