fine champagne
English
Etymology
From French fine champagne, originally eau-de-vie fine de la Champagne (“fine brandy from the Champagne region”).
Noun
fine champagne (countable and uncountable, plural fine champagnes)
- Fine French brandy from the Grande Champagne or Petite Champagne wine-growing areas of Cognac.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 71:
- ‘Will you have some coffee, you fellows? – Waiter, bring coffee, and fine-champagne, and cigarettes.’
Synonyms
Translations
blend of cognac of eau-de-vie
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