Also 8 verd(e)dea. [a. It. verdèa (whence F. verdée, Pg. verdea), f. verde green.] A wine made of a white grape grown in the neighborhood of Arcetri near Florence. Also attrib.
a. 1625. Fletcher & Mass., Elder Bro., II. i. Say it had been at Rome, and seen the Reliques, drunk your Verdea Wine, and rid at Naples.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Verdea, a kind of white Muscadine wine, made in Toscany, which is sometimes brought into England in bottles.
1719. Boyer, Dict. Royal, I. Verdée,… Verd-dea, White-Florentine Wine.
1760. Baretti, Ital. Dict., Verdea, a kind of white grapes called Verdedea, of which is made a kind of wine, called also Verdedea.
1833. C. Redding, Hist. Mod. Wines (1851), 278. The celebrated Verdea is a white wine, having a bright green tinge, grown at Arcetri; it was formerly held in high esteem.
1845. Encycl. Metrop., XXV. 1285/1.
b. transf. (See quot.)
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Verdea, a white Tunisian wine.
