▪ I. sec, a.
(sɛk)
[Fr.]
Of champagne and other wines: = dry a. 8. Also fig. Cf. extra sec s.v. extra adv. a.
| 1863 T. G. Shaw Wine, Vine & Cellar xviii. 334 It is evident that the word ‘sack’ cannot be understood to have denoted sec (dry). 1891, etc. [see extra adv. a]. 1899 Judge (N.Y.) XVI. 419/2 Berton ‘sec’ Champagne. 1931 Morning Post 10 Aug. 4/3 The Bayreuth Festival... Wagner sec. 1960 Wodehouse Jeeves in Offing xvi. 165, I was in my room, having shed the moistened outer crust and substituted something a bit more sec in pale flannel. |
▪ II. sec
obs. form of sack n.1, sick a.