pink champagne

noun

1. a sparkling white wine, especially of the Champagne district of France, colored slightly by the grape skins during fermentation or the addition of a small amount of red wine just before the second fermentation.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pink champagne¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

The water seemed to turn into something like pink champagne as the powder dissolved.

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Kenyon not only wrote about pink champagne, but dispensed it with many other good things.

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Then he let a drop of something fall on the ruby—and it fizzled up for all the world like pink champagne.

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"Pink champagne, and red-coats to drink it," chimed in the ensign.

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