Moët
(moɛ)
[From the name of the firm, Moët et Chandon of Rheims, which sells it.]
The name of a class of champagne.
| 1841 Thackeray St. Philip's Day at Paris Wks. 1900 XIII. 554 A bottle of soda-water, which all the pit takes to be real moët. 1883 M. E. Braddon Gold. Calf III. iv. 91, I can have a bottle of Moët there. |