(n.) A name given to several varieties of Old World grapes, differing in color, size, etc., but all having a somewhat musky flavor. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color.
Example Sentences:
(1) Muscat has little doubt that the 28 heads of government and the commission will agree their Brexit deal by October next year, and indicates that talks on an EU-UK trade deal could even take place in parallel.
(2) Speaking in the European parliament last week, Muscat warned that “unless the essence of the Turkey deal is replicated in the central Mediterranean, Europe will face a major migration crisis”.
(3) Malta’s prime minister, Joseph Muscat, said survivors spoke of “haunting experiences”.
(4) Muscat said southern states need more help from across the EU in patrolling the Mediterranean.
(5) "It wasn't good, we've conceded three goals from set-pieces and you give yourself a mountain to climb when you do that away from home," Muscat said.
(6) It was the fifth time Boogard has received a straight red card, equalling the all-time league record of new Melbourne Victory coach Kevin Muscat.
(7) The only good news for Muscat’s side was a welcome return to a well-behaved crowd.
(8) In 1989, at the Royal Hospital, Muscat, diabetes was recorded as the principal diagnosis for 2.6% of all discharges, and 6% of those in subjects aged 45 years and over.
(9) From start to finish, maybe apart from the first five minutes, it was a pretty lifeless performance,” Muscat said.
(10) We Brexited from the United Kingdom,” says the island’s prime minister, Joseph Muscat , laughing.
(11) Free and glycosidically bound terpenes of five Vitis vinifera grape cultivars (muscat of Alexandria, muscat of Frontignan, muscat of Hamburg, muscat Ottonel and Gewürztraminer) were investigated.
(12) Cameron's visit to Muscat comes weeks after an agreement to set up a defence partnership with the United Arab Emirates , potentially focused on the Typhoon jet, made by BAE Systems.
(13) Malta : “We need a solution but not at any cost,” the prime minister, Joseph Muscat, has said.
(14) US enters Yemen war, bombing Houthis who launched missiles at navy ship Read more Speaking to reporters in Switzerland, Kerry said a plane flew the Houthi delegation back to Yemen from the Omani capital, Muscat, and returned with people wounded in the strike, which hit a funeral hall .
(15) The tissue-specific distal promoter of the human skeletal alpha-actin gene (-1282 to -708) induces transcription in myogenic cells approximately 10-fold and, with the most proximal promoter domain (-153 to -87), it synergistically increases transcription 100-fold (Muscat and Kedes 1987).
(16) The Omani aircraft also flew home to Sana’a rebel negotiators who, because of the air blockade, had been stranded in Muscat since the collapse of UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait in August.
(17) Malta braces for referendum over spring bird hunting Read more Joseph Muscat , Malta’s prime minister, said the public had given a last chance for hunters to practise their tradition.
(18) Muscat refuses to say how much the UK will be stung for but is clear the matter cannot be ducked or the bill waived as a parting gesture of goodwill.
(19) This, says Muscat, is because the experience of British rule was “largely positive”.
(20) Tehran's chief prosecutor, Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi, said bail had been paid to Iran's bank, the Melli in Muscat, Oman, but it was not immediately clear who paid it.