champagnen.adj.
/ʃamˈpeɪn/, U.S. /ʃæmˈpeɪn/ A. n.
1.
a. Originally: any of various wines, red or white, still or sparkling, produced in the Champagne region of France. Now: spec. a white or rosé sparkling wine produced in this region and typically drunk on special occasions.The term Champagne is a Protected Designation of Origin in many countries including the United Kingdom and its commercial use is restricted to sparkling white or rosé wines produced in the Champagne region of France. However, the word is also used more generally to refer to sparkling white or rosé wines not produced in Champagne (see sense A. 1b) and some quots. at this sense may belong there.See also oeil-de-perdrix champagne, pink champagne n. Cf. méthode champenoise n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > French wines > [noun] > champagne
champagne1664
Champagne wine1671
simkin1829
sham1848
fizz1864
widow1876
bubbly water1878
boy1882
bubble water1899
pink wine1900
bubbly1916
bubble?1920
champers1955
shampoo1957
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 41 Drink every letter on't, in Stum; And make it brisk Champaign become.
1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode iv. i 67 Then sparkling Champaigne Puts an end to their reign.
1685 G. Meriton Praise of York-shire Ale 3 Other Liquors fine, Rasberry Wine..and Shampine.
1719 Free-thinker No. 107. 2 Sprightly young Fellows, who drink Champagne.
a1797 E. Burke Thoughts on Scarcity (1800) 42 Wits inspired with champaign and claret.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) iii. 17 What causes respectable parents to..spend a fifth of their year's income in ball suppers and iced champagne?
1875 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (ed. 2) ii. i. 45 A young mechanical genius on whom the sight of a locomotive acted exactly like a bottle of champagne.
1989 A. Taylor Acquainted with Night vi. 124 I toasted her with a glass of champagne in the beautiful French summer countryside.
2009 L. Barber Education 160 I rang Charles and Luke to tell them to crack open the champagne—he was on his way to recovery.
b. More generally: any sparkling white or rosé wine resembling champagne.See note at sense A. 1a.See also petroleum champagne n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > types of wine > [noun] > sparkling wine
champagne1822
vin mousseux1833
sparkler1869
bubble?1920
méthode champenoise1928
spritzig1950
mousseux1951
cava1978
1822 Amer. Farmer 11 Oct. 228/2 (heading) To make Champagne from Grapes equal to foreign.
1852 Daily News 26 Oct. 2/4 They make their champagne of French grapes, and use Cape wine for making port and sherry.
1999 R. Rendell Harm Done (2000) xxvii. 460 For, as she told everyone over the Spanish champagne, Miroslav had only got married for the sake of British citizenship.
2000 Cincinnati Jan. 53/3 A millennium cocktail party and champagne tasting.., features five different champagnes from France, Spain and California.
2. figurative. Something likened to champagne in being excellent or exhilarating.
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1880 Daily News 5 Aug. 5/2 Mr. Alfred Lyttleton once more displays..the style which has been called the champagne of cricket, a style brisk, sparkling, and exhilarating.
1896 Godey's Mag. Apr. 365/1 His candid devotion to ‘small cold bottles’ is unfailing champagne to the audience.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 23 June 2/2 You drink in the picture... This, you involuntarily cry, ‘This is the champagne of the century!’
1963 Times 28 Jan. 4/2 But yesterday during the closing stages, he gave the crowd a taste of champagne.
2009 Independent 28 Feb. 33/1 The tea of Darjeeling is famous around the world. The so-called champagne of brews, the regional variety is prized for its light, delicate taste and soothing aroma.
3. A colour like that of champagne; a pale cream, straw, or pinkish-yellow colour.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > pinkish yellow
champagne1881
apricot1906
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric of specific colour > [noun] > other
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1881 Lancaster Gaz. 16 Feb. A satin of the lovely shade called champagne, which is a tint of white with a yellowish and a pinkish tinge.
1929 Victoria (Brit. Columbia) Daily Times 17 May 12 This popular stocking is shown in a good selection of summer shades, including champagne, pearl blush, nude and aluminium.
1964 Civic Affairs (India) Dec. 21/1 The coach, painted in champagne and bronze green is named the ‘Apsara’.
2012 Independent 3 Mar. (Mag.) 51/1 The hats come in a great palette of colours from black, chocolate brown, champagne, caramel, fudge and white.
B. adj.
Designating a colour like that of champagne; having a pale cream, straw, or pinkish-yellow colour.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > pinkish yellow
champagne1809
1809 E. Nourse Mod. Pract. Cookery xiii. 249 This jelly, by boiling it in this manner with the seeds, gives it a fine champagne colour, betwixt the red and white.
1903 Lady's Realm Apr. 761/2 That pale biscuit colour which has been known..as the ‘champagne’ shade is now described as ‘almond’ colour.
1904 H. O. Sturgis Belchamber vii. 89 Who is the champagne blonde..next your brother?
1909 Daily Chron. 20 Jan. 6/3 A champagne dress.
1951 Festival of Brit.: Catal. Exhibits: South Bank Exhib. (H.M.S.O.) 187/1 Shoes,..black patent and champagne lizard.
1995 L. Hendricksen Lethal Legacy xiii. 102 A living room with champagne walls and furniture in muted shades of green and marsh brown.
Compounds
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a. General use as a modifier, and with verbal nouns and participles forming compounds in which champagne expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in champagne bubble, champagne cork, champagne grape, champagne maker, champagne tasting, champagne toast, etc.See also champagne bottle n.
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1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane iii. 114 (note) Two rivers in France, along whose banks the best Burgundy and Champagne-grapes grow.
1868 I. Saxon Five Years Golden Gate 266 Champagne-corks flew freely.
1882 Sat. Rev. 17 June 762/2 Everything..is in favour of the champagne-makers.
1925 Liberty 10 Jan. 37/2 He could feel the sharp little champagne bubbles dissolving crisply against his teeth.
1954 Financial Times 10 Aug. 4/5 One of the greatest of the champagne producers has caves at Rheims.
1990 New Jersey Goodlife Jan. 23/1 The wedding dinner is a..beautifully prepared meal comprised of a champagne toast, fantasy of fresh fruit, a mixed green salad, [etc.].
2000 Cincinnati Jan. 53/3 A millennium cocktail party and champagne tasting.., features five different champagnes from France, Spain and California.
2008 J. Gould Greek Winds of Fury xxxiv. 302 Another Champagne cork popped, and her flute overflowed with bubbly.
b. As a modifier designating food or drink containing or flavoured with champagne, as in champagne cocktail, champagne punch, champagne sauce, champagne sorbet, champagne truffle, etc.
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1817 Cambr. Chron. 9 May 4/5 The Champagne punch made with green tea, a glass or two of which added brilliancy and witchery to many a destructive eye.
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xv. 148 Well, if you don't know what that is, give us a champagne cock-tail.
1879 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 8 Feb. Lord Beaconsfield..lives principally on champagne jelly, of which he consumes three guineas' worth at each meal.
1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth (1964) i. viii. 94 Did you ever taste anything more delicious than that mousse of lobster with champagne sauce?
1961 S. Hathaway Dame of Sark xiii. 199 Before lunch we served champagne cocktails.
2005 Time Out N.Y. 7 Apr. 32/2 We were addicted to his creations, like..impossibly rich mud-slide cookies and delicate little champagne truffles.
2005 Cheshire Life Aug. 221/2 After excellent turbot and a refreshing champagne sorbet, the fillet of beef roulade was particularly impressive.
c. As a modifier designating a meal or event at which champagne is served, as in champagne breakfast, champagne brunch, champagne dinner, champagne picnic, champagne reception, champagne supper, etc.
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1825 H. Wilson Mem. I. 176 Her black-pudding dinners and champaine suppers.
1850 C. R. Weld Auvergne, Piedmont, & Savoy xix. 351 The tour..will be found considerably less expensive than travelling in Switzerland or Germany. That is, provided the tourist does not indulge in ptarmigan and champagne dinners.
1921 F. M. Ford Let. 17 May (1965) 132 I will stand you a champagne dinner.
a1966 M. Allingham Cargo of Eagles (1968) iv. 54 He..gave them a champagne lunch in a marquee..and held a sale. By then everyone was as high as a kite.
1971 S. Howatch Penmarric (1972) ii. iii. 154 They joined us for a champagne breakfast at Claridges before leaving us free to return to Park Lane on our own.
1978 Ukiah (Calif.) Daily Jrnl. 5 Sept. 7 They're also planning a pre-concert champagne brunch.
1995 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Summer 40/2 A champagne picnic on a summit near Vancouver.
2017 Daily Tel. 22 May 1/1 Prince Harry's girlfriend,..who did not attend the church service or the champagne reception, was not seated at his table.
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champagne bucket n. a bucket for holding a bottle of champagne immersed in ice cubes or iced water, in order to keep its contents cool; cf. ice bucket n. at ice n. Compounds 8.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > water- or wine-cooler
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psykter1848
champagne bucket1874
monkey-pot1884
koozie1979
1874 Sporting Gaz. 30 May 483/3 (advt.) Oak champagne buckets.
2011 D. Hahn tr. M. Dueñas Time in Between li. 498 A waiter positioned the champagne bucket beside us and placed two glasses on the table.
champagne cider n. a type of sparkling cider that undergoes a secondary fermentation after bottling (cf. méthode champenoise n.).
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > cider > [noun] > types of cider
pippin cider1662
redstreak cider1664
water cidera1665
redstreak1671
moil1708
wring-jawa1804
champagne cider1810
rough1858
scrumpy1903
1810 Republican (Savannah, Georgia) 18 Oct. (advt.) 19 boxes of 1 dozen bottles each, Sparkling Champagne Cider.
1889 Cider Manuf.: France in Rep. Consuls U.S. (1890) 30 388 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (51st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Misc. Doc. 231) XXIV To make champagne cider, bottle the juice after the first or boiling fermentation.
2016 Essex Chron. (Nexis) 23 Dec. 28 A special champagne cider has been launched..which would be perfect to toast the arrival of New Year.
champagne-coloured adj. having a pale cream, straw, or pinkish-yellow colour.
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1878 Duke of Medina Pomar Secret Marriage iv. i, in Tinsleys' Mag. Sept. 241/1 That beau farceur with the champagne-coloured moustache?
1901 Westm. Gaz. 24 May 3/2 A very handsome coat of champagne-coloured cloth lined with silk.
2008 New Yorker 10 Mar. 73/2 It was a short, champagne-colored gown with a fitted waist and a full skirt.
champagne cup n. now historical a drink made from fruit juices and champagne (see cup n. 11).
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > drinks made with wine > [noun] > drinks with champagne
champagne cup1830
Bismarck1910
black velvet1926
Buck's Fizz1930
mimosa1936
kir royale1977
1830 Edinb. Lit. Jrnl. 30 Oct. 265/1 His wit sparkles up like a champagne cup, And there's heart and soul in every sup!
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxvi. 251 Considerable excitement, produced by a supper and champagne-cup.
1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. ii. viii. 211 There was the champagne cup.
2002 Times 27 June (T2 section) 28/4 The meal is washed down with a champagne cup, after which all the guests set off, joyfully bottled, for a spot of messing about on the river.
champagne flute n. a tall, narrow, long-stemmed glass in which champagne is served.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > glass
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Venice glass1527
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Malaga glassa1627
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long glass1680
mum-glass1684
toasting glass1703
wine glass1709
tulip-glass1755
tun-glass1755
water glass1779
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Madeira glass1801
tumbling glass1803
noggin glass1805
champagne glass1815
table glass1815
balloon glass1819
copita1841
firing glass1842
nobbler1842
thimble glass1843
wine1848
liqueur-glass1850
straw-stem1853
pokal1854
goblet1856
mousseline1862
pony glass1862
long-sleever1872
cocktail glass1873
champagne flute1882
yard-glass1882
sleever1896
tea-glass1898
liqueur1907
dock-glass1911
toast-master glass1916
Waterford1916
stem-glass1922
Pilsner glass1923
Amen glass1924
ballon1930
balloon goblet1931
thistle glass1935
snifter1937
balloon1951
shot-glass1955
handle1956
tulip1961
schooner1967
champagne fountain1973
1882 H. Vizetelly Hist. Champagne i. vi. 83 St. Evremond makes the Champagne flute the glass of fashion.
1981 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 3 Oct. Folks make a damn fuss about glasses—wine glasses.., brandy ballons, Champagne flutes, what have you.
2016 R. R. Feeman & B. A. Feeman Town in Cinnamon Toast (e-book ed.) ‘A toast!’ said Henry ‘Doc’ Holliday enthusiastically as he reached for his champagne flute and hoisted it in a ceremonial gesture.
champagne gas n. carbon dioxide.
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the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > carbon > [noun] > compounds
carbonic acid1788
carburet1788
carbure1789
carbonic acid snow1841
carbidec1865
carbon dioxide1867
champagne gas1871
carbon dioxide snow1897
methanide1924
methide1965
carbon1977
1871 W. H. Taylor Bk. Trav. Doctor Physic xviii. 230 He [sc. the dog] presently becomes fond of reveling in this champagne gas and willingly repeats it.
1901 Daily News 4 Mar. 7/4 The refrigerant is to be carbonic anhydride, or champagne gas.
1986 AOPA Pilot July 60/1 Comely young women from each state christened the Cubs by popping balloons filled with champagne gas.
champagne glass n. a stemmed glass, typically a flute or coupe, in which champagne is served.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > glass
glassc888
verrea1382
Venice glass1527
rummer1625
bottle glass1626
Malaga glassa1627
flute1649
flute-glass1668
long glass1680
mum-glass1684
toasting glass1703
wine glass1709
tulip-glass1755
tun-glass1755
water glass1779
tumbler-glass1795
Madeira glass1801
tumbling glass1803
noggin glass1805
champagne glass1815
table glass1815
balloon glass1819
copita1841
firing glass1842
nobbler1842
thimble glass1843
wine1848
liqueur-glass1850
straw-stem1853
pokal1854
goblet1856
mousseline1862
pony glass1862
long-sleever1872
cocktail glass1873
champagne flute1882
yard-glass1882
sleever1896
tea-glass1898
liqueur1907
dock-glass1911
toast-master glass1916
Waterford1916
stem-glass1922
Pilsner glass1923
Amen glass1924
ballon1930
balloon goblet1931
thistle glass1935
snifter1937
balloon1951
shot-glass1955
handle1956
tulip1961
schooner1967
champagne fountain1973
1815 L. Simond Jrnl. Tour Great Brit. I. 46 Sparkling ale, which is served in high shaped glasses like Champagne glasses.
1851 London at Table ii. 45 Never use the present round saucer animalcula-catching champagne glasses, but..tulip-shaped ones.
1996 H. Fielding Bridget Jones's Diary (1997) 132 I watched her toying with her champagne glass despondently.
champagne house n. an establishment that produces champagne.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > establishment for wine-making
champagne house1839
winery1882
1839 N.-Y. Spectator 3 Jan. Large orders were given by a Champagne house.
1879 H. Vizetelly Facts about Champagne ii. 26 The large champagne houses, possessing vineyards, always have their pressoirs in the neighbourhood.
2010 A. Robinson 2011 Wine Buying Guide 32 Each French Champagne house is known for a signature style, which can range from delicate and elegant to rich, full, and toasty.
champagne lifestyle n. a way of life that is characterized by luxury and extravagance.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > way of life > [noun] > specific
sheltered life1888
douceur de vivre1907
lifestyle1915
Lebensform1925
douceur de la vie1941
good life1954
alternative lifestyle1968
slow lane1972
champagne lifestyle1973
1973 Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 16 Sept. (advt.) Champagne lifestyle at beer prices.
2016 Sc. Daily Mail (Nexis) 4 May 3 [He] blew his entire £2.8million fortune on a champagne lifestyle of fast cars, holidays and yachts.
champagne saucer n. a stemmed glass with a broad, shallow bowl, in which champagne is served.
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1861 Preston Chron. & Lancs. Advertiser 13 July 1/5 (advt.) Cut Champagne saucers, and other glass.
1951 Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 2 Jan. b3/3 There [were] toasts drunk from gold champagne saucers.
2013 R. Shukert Starstruck xxiv. 285 They watched a waiter upend the fizzy contents of the bottle over a towering pyramid of champagne saucers.
champagne tweezers n. (with plural agreement) a utensil, resembling a pair of pliers, used for pulling the corks from champagne bottles; also as a pair of champagne tweezers.
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1851 Official Catal. Great Exhib.: Zollverein Sect. 48/1 (list) 1 champagne tweezers.
1877 All Year Round 1 Dec. 398/2 Cuthbert,..whom I remembered, at the age of six, getting under the table to operate upon my boots with a pair of champagne-tweezers.
2008 B. K. Julyan Sales & Service for Wine Professional (ed. 3) xi. 281 Stubborn corks may be eased out by inserting champagne tweezers between the cork head and the top of the bottle. Do not twist the tweezers, just lever the cork up.
Champagne wine n. now rare wine produced in the Champagne region of France; champagne. [Compare French vin de Champagne, denoting any of various wines produced in the region (1608), denoting a specific kind of wine (1666 or earlier).]
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > French wines > [noun] > champagne
champagne1664
Champagne wine1671
simkin1829
sham1848
fizz1864
widow1876
bubbly water1878
boy1882
bubble water1899
pink wine1900
bubbly1916
bubble?1920
champers1955
shampoo1957
1671 J. Caryll Sir Salomon v. 82 I have made a discovery of the rarest Champaine-Wine in Town.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ii. 101 A faint redish colour like Champane wine.
1716 B. Taylor Let. 22 Apr. in I. Newton Corr. (1976) VI. 332 In one of his last he tells me he has sent to me a hamper of Champagne wine, and begs your acceptance of 50 bottles of it.
1901 Punch 9 Jan. 22/1 In spite o' the champagne wine they were strikin' down by the quart, the talk was as 'eavy to listen to as the Times noospaper is to read.
2013 C. Jolicoeur New Cider Maker's Handbk. xv. 269/2 This is in fact the Champagne or champenoise method, but this name can no longer be used for anything other than a true Champagne wine.
Derivatives
chamˈpagne-ish adj. (also champagnish) reminiscent or evocative of champagne; bright, lively.In its period of greatest frequency (the 19th cent.), champage-ish was mainly used (usually in the form champagnish) to refer to things figuratively likened to champagne. In later, rarer use usually with reference to wine or other alcoholic drinks.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > French wines > [adjective] > resembling champagne
champagne-ish1833
champagny1848
1833 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 171 [You] hear rather plainish A sound that's champaignish.
1840 Musical World 21 May 318 The music is throughout light and champagnish.
2012 Intelligencer Jrnl. (Lancaster, Pa.) (Nexis) 7 Nov. d1 To me, a lambic is like a champagne-ish beer or beerish champagne.
chamˈpagneless adj. characterized by the absence of champagne; without champagne.
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1842 Colonial Gaz. 5 Oct. 627/2 They may not perhaps be able to take a couple for fifty guineas, but they can well afford to keep a good wholesome champagneless table, with fresh meat, poultry, and a cow on board, at 50l. per adult, and perhaps even less.
2001 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 16 Oct. Their champagneless celebration..was winding down.
chamˈpagniness n. a quality reminiscent or evocative of champagne; brightness, liveliness.See note at champagny adj.
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1862 D. M. Craik Mistress & Maid i, in Good Words 3 36/1 The everyday wine of her life had a spice of champagniness, not frothiness but natural effervescence of spirit.
1884 R. Jefferies in Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Aug. 4 A warm sweet air, light and brightness and champagniness.
1994 Independent on Sunday 26 June (Review Suppl.) 54/3 What you get with all these beers is a bit more tartness and fruitiness, because of the secondary fermentation in the bottle—a bit more champagney-ness, if you like.
chamˈpagny adj. reminiscent or evocative of champagne; bright, lively.In its period of greatest frequency (the 19th cent.), champagny was mainly used to refer to things figuratively likened to champagne. In later, rarer use usually with reference to wine or other alcoholic drinks.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > French wines > [adjective] > resembling champagne
champagne-ish1833
champagny1848
1848 North Amer. & U.S. Gaz. (Philadelphia) 8 Apr. The City Item—champagney in its briskness and hockish in its sparkle—for to-day, is just such a paper as one would love to read in the cool of the evening.
1882 Macmillan's Mag. 46 67 That peculiar champagney feel of mountain air.
1993 Wine May (Champagne Suppl.) 7/1 Autolysis, which contributes to the wine's ‘champagny’ character.
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champagnev.
/ʃamˈpeɪn/, U.S. /ʃæmˈpeɪn/ 1. intransitive. To drink champagne. Cf. wine v.1 2.
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1814 Ld. Byron Let. 9 Apr. (1975) IV. 91 We clareted and champagned till two.
1930 W. Lewis Apes of God (1981) xiii. 612 He stood quite giddy as if he had recently been champagning again.
2003 N. George Night Work 143 As we sat at a long table, dining and champagning, I just sat back grinning and enjoying being the man.
2. transitive. To treat (a person) lavishly by serving him or her champagne; to ply with champagne. Cf. wine v.1 3.
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1852 Grahams Mag. 40 221/2 He will be as jolly as if you champagned him, or killed the fattest chicken.
1856 Empire (Sydney) 14 Oct. 2/6 Some of those worthy electors who got quite enthusiastic champagning their honorable member, now just as zealously denounce him.
1866 D. B. Casseday Hortons xx. 179 Some men think champagning customers profitable in business.
2009 S. Elliott & J. Fox Children who fought Hitler (2010) xv. 265 I was feted. I was champagned. I was proposed to and I was asked out.
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