/ ˈʃeri; NAmE / noun ( pl. -ies )
1.
[ U , C ] a strong yellow or brown wine, originally from southern Spain. It is often drunk before meals :
sweet / dry sherry
cream sherry (= a type of very sweet sherry )
fine quality sherries
a sherry glass (= a type of small narrow wine glass)
2.
[ C ] a glass of sherry :
I'll have a sherry.
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WORD ORIGIN
late 16th cent.: alteration of archaic sherris , interpreted as plural, from Spanish (vino de) Xeres Xeres (wine) (Xeres being the former name of Jerez, a town in Andalusia, Spain).