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Mumm|mʊm|
The proprietary name of the champagne produced by the firm of Mumm in Rheims.
[1851C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines (ed. 3) vi. 106 The great complaint against Champagne wine has been that it cannot be obtained of a uniform quality... To remedy this evil..Mumm, Geisler & Co., at Rheims, provided tuns holding twelve thousand litres each.] 1885Christie's Auction Catal. 18 Dec. 17 Three dozens of Champagne, 1868, Mumm. 1907C. E. Hawker Chats about Wine 87 Such names as Cliquot,..Mumm, Pommery, Roederer, etc., will occur to everyone as carrying with them a guarantee of high-class quality and excellence. 1928E. Waugh Decline & Fall v. 188 The wedding..was to take place in church with all the barbaric concomitants of bridesmaids, Mendelssohn and Mumm. 1967‘L. Black’ Two Ladies in Verona x. 161 A bottle of Mumm Cordon Rouge. I leave the year to you. 1975J. Symons Three Pipe Problem xii. 87 ‘Glass of Mumm, delicious.’..‘I shouldn't have thought you could have seen the name.’ ‘Only the corner of the label. The Mumm label is distinctive.’ |