Hypertext Webster Gateway: "champagne"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Champagne \Cham*pagne"\, n. [F. See {Champaign}.]
A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the
province of Champagne, in France.
Note: Champagne properly includes several kinds not only of
sparkling but of still wines; but in America the term
is usually restricted to wines which effervesce.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
champagne
n 1: a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or
resembling that produced there [syn: {bubbly}]
2: a region of northeastern France [syn: {Champagne}, {Champagne-Ardenne}]
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