chambré
/ˈʃɒmbreɪ
/ /ˈʃɒ̃mbreɪ/adjective [predicative]
(Of red wine) at room temperature: the French believe that Cabernet tastes best chambré...
- Is 18 minutes really sufficient to allow a bottle of wine to breathe and chambré?
- Red wine from the cellar ain't going to be chambré.
- Tasting advice: It is best drunk chambré, at 16-18° with simple or complex meals, and goes best with delicatessen, meat and cheese.
Origin
1950s: French, past participle of chambrer 'bring to room temperature', from chambre 'room' (see chamber).
Rhymes
- non-bonding
- non-book
- non-breakable
- nonc
- noncallable
- non-cancerous
- non-candidacy
- non-candidate
- non-capital
- non-Catholic
- nonce
- non-cellulosic
- non-central
- non-centrality
- non-certain
- non-certainty
- non-certifiable
- non-certificated
- non-certification
- non-certified
- nonce word
- noncey
- nonchalance
- nonchalant
- nonchalantly