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Webster 1913 Edition
Champagne
Cham-pagne′
,Noun.
[F. See
Champaign
.] A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the province of Champagne, in France.
☞ 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.