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‖ mousseux, a.|musø|
[Fr.]
= sparkling ppl. a.1 3 c (often placed after the n.). Also fig. Also as n., a sparkling wine.
[1789A. Young Jrnl. 7 July in Travels (1792) I. 132, I solaced myself with a bottle of excellent vin mousseux for 40s.] 1819H. Busk Dessert 25 The sillery champagne, champagne mousseux, Clear as their taper vase escape the view. 1861Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. 889 There are the sparkling wines (mousseux), and the still wines (non-mousseux). 1906W. De Morgan Joseph Vance xl. 400, I feel like the contents of a bottle, and am very curious to know what will happen when the bottle is uncorked. Perhaps I shall be mousseux—who knows? 1951R. Postgate Plain Man's Guide to Wine v. 92 Not one of the ‘mousseux’, ‘méthode champenoise’ or ‘gazifiés’ possesses the clean, hard flinty taste of champagne. 1968L. Deighton Continental Dossier 29 At St. Péray they make mousseux wine—and say they have made it as long as they have in Champagne. 1973P. Audemars Delicate Dust of Death vii. 95 This is a local mousseux... Mousseux is drunk after the grapes are gathered—in October and November. |