DFDa French white wine with a lot of bubbles, drunk on special occasions 〔法国〕香槟酒
Examples from the Corpus
champagne• There will be fireworks from 11: 45 p. m. until 12: 15 a. m., and champagne at midnightawaits.• Do not expect these wines to taste like champagne.• Halsey went over to the dresser, poured from an open bottle of champagne into three glasses, and handed them around.• He was probably lying under a table somewhere dozing the afternoon away after one champagnecocktail too many.• Aristos, being of course a completemedia and fashionvictim, had heard of it and ordered champagne.• We had a fireplace and refrigerator for our champagne.• But they should keep the champagnecorked until they get more from the company.• The champagne, the first sips of which had lifted her spirits, was after a glassful having the opposite effect.
Originchampagne
(1600-1700)FrenchChampagne area of northeastern France