Perry, an agreeable beverage made by fermenting the juice of pears. It is extensively made in Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Devonshire, and forms, with cider, the chief diet-drink of those districts. It contains from 5 to 9 per cent. of alcohol. See CIDER.
Perry
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 61–62
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