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Chablis   /ʃəblˈi/   Listen
Chablis

noun
1.
A town in north central France noted for white Burgundy wines.
2.
Dry white table wine of Chablis, France or a wine resembling it.  Synonym: white Burgundy.






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"Chablis" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Vogue la Guallee," or sometimes "Vogue la Gualee" (see p.5). Jehan Du Pr the Lyons printer, used the accompanying Mark formed of his initials. The first as well as the most noted member of the Le Rouge family of printers was Pierre, who resided at Chablis, Troyes, and Paris, and who was the first to take the title of "Libraire-Imprimeur du Roi," ceded to him by Charles VIII., and used in "La Mer des Histoires," 1488. Appropriately enough, Michel Le Noir, whose motto we have already quoted, may be here referred to. He issued ...
— Printers' Marks - A Chapter in the History of Typography • William Roberts

... who took compassion on the fallen spendthrift, and believed, or pretended to believe, his story of temporary embarrassment; and then the Captain dined sumptuously at a little French restaurant in Castle-street, Leicester-square, and took a half-bottle of chablis with his oysters, and warmed himself with chambertin that was brought to him in a dusty cobweb-shrouded bottle reposing ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon



Words linked to "Chablis" :   burgundy, France, French Republic, Burgundy wine, white wine, town, white Burgundy



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