Wine Dry Though Lips Not That Is The Drink Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 14, 2023

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	noun • white grape grown in Europe and California • fragrant dry or sweet white wine from the Rhine valley or a similar wine from California
	29%	5		Italian word for “dry”, used to refer to a technique of mural painting on dried lime plaster as opposed to fresh or “fresco”; or, dry wine
	noun • A work painted on dry plaster, as distinguished from a fresco. adjective • Dry • Dry – sparse accompaniment, staccato, without resonance
	28%	9		Wine characteristic that falls between dry and off-dry
	adjective satellite • of a wine that is dry but not extremely dry

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