adjective
- (of wine, especially champagne) very dry.
noun
- any of a number of partly legendary, partly historical chronicles dealing with early English history, written during the Middle Ages and usually beginning with Brutus, the mythic and eponymous ancestor of the country.
adjective
- (of champagne) not sweet; dry
“dry,” 1891, used of wines, especially champagnes, from French brut (14c.), literally “raw, crude” (see brute).