Definitions for Sherris

Sherris sher·ris

Spelling: [sher-is]
IPA: /ˈʃɛr ɪs/

Sherris is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in Sherris (ehirrss).

Definitions for Sherris

noun

  1. sherry.

Origin of Sherris

1530-40; Spanish (vino de) Xeres (wine of) Xeres (now Jerez)

Examples for Sherris

Sherry is also produced in other districts, but takes its name, formerly written in English as sherris or xeres, from Jerz.

Falstaff calls it sherris sack (sherry sack), from Xeres, a sea town of Corduba, where that kind of sack (wine) is made.

But the sherris warms it, and makes its course from the inwards to the parts extreme.

The cider which he drank was brewed by my mother from her own apples; to him it was as good as if it had been sherris or Rhenish.

Youve sacked cities, Ralph Percy; now sack me the ministers closet and bring out his sherris.

Tennyson had his port, whereto clings a good old tradition; sherris sack belongs to a nobler age; these drinks are not for us.

Ferne signed to the steward, and when the tankard was filled, raised the sherris to his lips.

Word Value for Sherris
Scrable

10

Words with friends

9

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