brut

very dry, as champagne
Not to be confused with:brute – a beast; a brutal person; savage; cruel

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B0513500 (bro͞ot)adj. Very dry. Used of champagne.

[French, from Old French, rough, from Latin brūtus, heavy; see g^werə- in Indo-European roots.]

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(bruːt; French bryt) adj (Cookery) (of champagne) not sweet; dry[C19: from French raw, rough, from Latin brūtus heavy; see brute]

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(brut; Fr. brüt)

adj. (of wine, esp. champagne) very dry. [1890–95; < French: (more generally) raw, unprocessed, brutish; see brute]

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brut - (of champagne) extremely drydry - (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation; "a dry white burgundy"; "a dry Bordeaux"

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(bro͞o`təs), a Trojan, legendary founder of the British race, descendant of AeneasAeneas
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..... Click the link for more information. . His story appears in Nennius and in Geoffrey of Monmouth, and his name gives the titles to long poems by Wace and Layamon.

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adj (of champagne) extremely dry

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