mousseuxadj.n.

1784 in G. Washington Papers (1992) Confederation Ser. II. 248 Mousseux Wines do not suit in your Country on account of the heat which bursts them.

1819 H. Busk Dessert 25 The sillery champagne, champagne mousseux, Clear as their taper vase escape the view.

1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxxvii. 889 There are the sparkling wines (mousseux), and the still wines (non-mousseux).

1883 H. James En Province in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 181/1 She uncorked for us a bottle of Vouvray mousseux.

1906 W. 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?

1968 L. Deighton Continental Dossier 29 At St. Péray they make mousseux wine—and say they have made it as long as they have in Champagne.

1990 Decanter Mar. 72/1 Ayala Bout NV is an honest, fruity, and generous wine of the grand mousseux style, which may sometimes be lacking a certain lustre, but can also be surprisingly good.

1951 R. 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.

1973 P. Audemars Delicate Dust of Death vii. 95 This is a local mousseux... Mousseux is drunk after the grapes are gathered—in October and November.

1988 K. Lynch Adventures on Wine Route 39 I buy one hundred hectoliters of wine from three different cellars because I want the Mousseux to be from a blend of soils.