mousseux

From French mousseux.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /muːˈsəː/

mousseux (comparative more mousseux, superlative most mousseux)

1. Of wine: sparkling.

mousseux (plural mousseux)

1. A sparkling wine.
   • 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York 2007, p. 70:

     We sat down at a corner table and ordered a bottle of iced mousseux.

From mousse +‎ -eux

• IPA^(key): /mu.sø/

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mousseux (feminine singular mousseuse, masculine plural mousseux, feminine plural mousseuses)

1. foamy; frothy
2. (wine) sparkling

mousseux m (plural mousseux)

1. Ellipsis of vin mousseux; sparkling wine

• “mousseux” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).