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Definition of Solera
1. Noun. A method of producing sherry in which small amounts of younger wines stored in an upper tier of casks are systematically blended with the more mature wine in the casks below ¹
2. Noun. A large wine cask, on the bottom tier in this system, that contains the oldest wine ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Solera
1. a system of sherry production [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Solera
Literary usage of Solera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1892)
"Diminished resistance develops in consequence of inflammations of the solera,
and hence occurs in the deep form of scleritis, which leads to anterior ..."
2. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1873)
"If, therefore, a solera, say of amontillado, consists of sixty butts, and the
sales of th« extractor have diminished their contents to one-half, ..."
3. Injuries to the eye in their medico-legal aspect by Sosthène Baudry, Charles Augustus Oliver, Charles Sinkler (1900)
"... INJURIES to the solera in themselves are not serious. They are, however,
usually combined with lacerated ..."
4. An American Text-book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat by George Edmund De Schweinitz, Burton Alexander Randall (1899)
"The tendons of the various ocular muscles pierce the capsule of Tenon in order
to gain their insertions into the solera, which may thus be regarded as lying ..."
5. Diseases of the Eye by Lawrance Webster Fox (1904)
"CHAPTER VII DISEASES OF THE SCLERA THE solera or external coat of the eye is not
as liable to disease processes as the other portions of the eye. ..."
6. A Laboratory Manual of Human Anatomy by Lewellys Franklin Barker, Dean De Witt Lewis, Daniel Graisberry Revell (1904)
"In the SCLERA (OT sclerotic coat, or white of the eye) examine the following: (a)
Sulcus of the solera (sulcus sclerae). Make a meridional incision through ..."
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