1. madeira - Noun
2. Madeira - Proper noun
A rich wine made on the Island of Madeira.
Source: Webster's dictionary1849 saw an emigration of Protestant religious exiles from Madeira to the United States, by way of Trinidad and other locations in the West Indies. Source: Internet
After a month of rebuilding the ways, Constitution finally slipped into Boston Harbor on 21 October 1797, with Captain James Sever breaking a bottle of Madeira wine on her bowsprit. Source: Internet
A bottle of Madeira was used by visiting Captain James Server to christen USS Constitution in 1797. Source: Internet
A few days later they stopped a vessel sailing from Madeira to Charleston, South Carolina. Source: Internet
A delegation of Polish monks went to Madeira to question him and certified he was in fact the long lost king, now living in secrecy. Source: Internet
Another missionary from Scotland, William Hepburn Hewitson, took on Protestant ministerial activities in Madeira. Source: Internet