Forms: 6 tynt, tente, teynt, 7 tint, 7– tent. [ad. Sp. tinto dark-colored:—L. tinctus, pa. pple. of tingĕre to dye: see TINCT, TINGE. Cf. Sp. ‘vino Tinto, a blackish wine in Spaine’ (Minsheu, 1599).] A Spanish wine of a deep red color, and of low alcoholic content. Also tent wine. (Often used as a sacramental wine.)
1542. Boorde, Dyetary, x. (1870), 255. Also these hote wynes, as … caprycke, tynt.
1580. Frampton, Dial. Yron & Steele, 159. Casting wine called Tente vpon burning yron.
1612. in Halyburton’s Ledger (1867), 335. Sackes Canareis Malagas Maderais … Teynts and Allacants.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1650), II. lv. 74. The Vinteners make Tent (which is a Name for all Wines in Spain except white) to supply the place of it.
1748. Anson’s Voy., II. x. 246. Spanish wines, such as tent and sherry.
1881. Med. Temp. Jrnl., XLVIII. 199. Tent … is the least objectionable of intoxicating wines.
