fine champagne

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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)

1. Fine French brandy from the Grande Champagne or Petite Champagne wine-growing areas of Cognac.
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, p. 71:

     ‘Will you have some coffee, you fellows? – Waiter, bring coffee, and fine-champagne, and cigarettes.’

Synonyms

• fine