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Serried vs Sherried - What's the difference?

serried | sherried |

As adjectives the difference between serried and sherried

is that serried is crowded together in rows while sherried is prepared with sherry.

serried

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • crowded together in rows
  • *1899 ,
  • *:Above the bush the trees stood in serried ranks.
  • *1912 ,
  • *:They have, in the security of their sumptuous offices, behind stout mill gates and serried rows of bayonets and policemen's clubs, defied the State, city, and public.
  • *1996 , , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 45:
  • *:The Murris in their serried invisible ranks crowd around her.

    • Usage notes

    *Used especially of ranks of troops.

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    sherried

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Prepared with sherry.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 27, author=Laraine Perri, title=An Enigma Gliding Through Time, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=She strikes me as the kind of person who would eat lovely things accompanied by toast points ?— sherried chicken livers, steak tartare ?—? but even a countess wouldn’t feed a brood that way. }}