Also 7 Back-rac(k, -rag, Baccharach, Bachrag, -rach. A town on the Rhine giving its name to a wine formerly much esteemed.
c. 1620. Fletch. & Mass., Begg. Bush, V. ii. My fire-works and flap-dragons and good back-rack.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., s.v., Wines which are made there, and therefore called Bachrag or Bacharach; vulgarly, Rhenish wines.
1678. Butler, Hud., III. iii. 300. Stoutly overcome With Bachrach.
1820. Scott, Abbot, xv. Bacharac, of the first vintage.
1851. Longf., Gold. Leg., 171. A draught from the noble Bacharach cask.
