tirage
Americannoun
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tirages
plural
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the withdrawing of wine from a barrel, as for testing or tasting.
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a drawing, as in a lottery.
noun
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the drawing of wine from a barrel prior to bottling
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the process in the making of a sparkling wine in which fermentable sugar and yeast is added to induce secondary fermentation
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of tirage
from French: drawing, pulling
Example Sentences
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The tirage or bottling of the wine ordinarily commences in the middle of May, and occupies fully a month.
From Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines by Henry Vizetelly
Follow three unnumbered sheets, on the first page of which is the Justification du tirage, with the date of printing and the printer’s name, Durand of Chartres.
From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Joseph Dommers Vehling
I believe the tirage is conducted with perfect fairness; and people thus subscribe a franc for the poor, with the agreeable, but very remote, chance of being repaid, même ici bas, a hundred thousand-fold.
From Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas by Catherine Crowe
I start a little experiment in tirage de jambe, and you put your heavy hoof in and spoil the whole business.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 by Various
The tirage or bottling is effected by means of two large tuns placed side by side, and holding twelve hogsheads of wine each.
From Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines by Henry Vizetelly
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