Also 7 lachrymæ Christi, and simply 9 lacrima, 8 pl. lacrimæ. [L. = It. lagrima (or lagrime) di Cristo Christ’s tear (or tears).] A strong and sweet red wine of southern Italy.
[1611. Coryat, Crudities (1776), II. 72. Their Lagryme di Christo … so toothsome and delectable to the taste.]
1670–81. Blount, Glossogr., Lachrymæ Christi.
1731. Fielding, Author’s Farce, II. i. Tokay I have drank, and Lacrimæ I have drank.
1820. Blackw. Mag., VIII. 44. The Parsons should grow misty On good Lac Virginis, or Lachryma Christi.
1842. Lytton, Zanoni, I. iii. The old lácrima, a present from the good Cardinal.
1880. Dr. B. W. Richardson, in Macm. Mag., XLI. 237/2. The ‘red fat sweet and gratefully poignant wine,’—As Neumann defines it, called Lachryma Christi.
