Assertion: mead | /r/CapableOf | lose ground
Facets:
value: to wines
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to ales
type: LOCATION
value: nonetheless
type: MANNER
value: to beers
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: from the 12th century
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Nonetheless, mead, once the most common alcoholic drink of England, had lost ground to ales and beers (since the earliest days of improved medieval agriculture) and also to wines (imported from Gascony for the wealthy, from the 12th century onward).