"mare's teat" meaning in English

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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mare, teat."
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          "ref": "1999, Catharina Y.W. Ang, Keshun Liu, Yao-Wen Huang, Asian Foods: Science and Technology, page 391",
          "text": "Incidentally, a famous wine grape brought in from the Silk Road, still being used to make wine in the Northwest, is called mare's teat (perhaps because of its shape); because in Chinese the same word is used for both \"teat\" and \"milk,\" it is sometimes incorrectly rendered in English as \"kumiss grape.\"",
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          "ref": "2004, Frances Wood, The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia, page 67",
          "text": "They also carried the special mare's teat grapes from the oasis of Khocho (packed in ice in lead containers) and sold luxury goods from the west to the Chinese: Sassanian silverware from Persia which had a huge influence on Chinese silverwork, glass vessels and beads from Syria and Babylon, amber from the Baltic, Mediterranean coral, brass for Buddhist images, and purple woollen cloth from Rome.",
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          "ref": "2009, David Foster, Sons of the Rumour",
          "text": "I partied at Aksu until they began to tire of me and started asking whether I wouldn't prefer to pay for my mare's teat grape wine.",
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          "ref": "2010, Guy Gavriel Kay, Under Heaven",
          "text": "“I have not tasted mare's teat wine in more than two years,” he said. “I should be honoured to be your guest. Shall we invite the prefect to join us?”",
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          "ref": "2011, Peter Ward, Dragon Horse, page 51",
          "text": "'Excellent!' he exclaimed. 'The finest sweet wine, made from the best mare's teat grapes in Kocho - a valued ally in these troubled times.'",
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        "A variety of wine grape from the Central Asian oases with distinctively shaped, brownish-purple fruit."
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