sabrage
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Etymology
From French sabrage. By surface analysis, sabre + -age.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /səˈbɹɑːʒ/
Noun
sabrage (uncountable)
- The usually ceremonial technique of opening a bottle, typically of champagne, by slicing off the bottle's neck with a sabre.
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French
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Noun
sabrage m (plural sabrages)
Descendants
- English: sabrage
Further reading
- “sabrage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.