fine champagne

English

Etymology

From French fine champagne, originally eau-de-vie fine de la Champagne (“fine brandy from the Champagne region”).

Noun

fine champagne (countable and uncountable, plural fine champagnes)

1. Fine French brandy from the Grande Champagne or Petite Champagne wine-growing areas of Cognac.
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 71:

     ‘Will you have some coffee, you fellows? – Waiter, bring coffee, and fine-champagne, and cigarettes.’

Synonyms

• fine

Translations

blend of cognac of eau-de-vie

• Belarusian: фіньшампа́нь m (finʹšampánʹ)
• Russian: финьшампа́нь (ru) m (finʹšampánʹ)
• Ukrainian: фіньшампа́нь m (finʹšampánʹ)