Also 8 chablee. [Fr., f. the name of the small town Chablis (Yonne), near which it is made.] A celebrated white French wine.
1668. Shadwell, Sullen Lovers, V. (1670), 71. You must have your Cellar full of Champaign, Chablee, Burgundy, and Remedy Wines.
c. 1678. Oldham, Paraphr. Horace’s Odes, I. xxxi. in Poems & Transl. (1697), 55. Their Nants, Champagns, Chablees, Frontiniacks tell.
1844. Browning, Gard. Fancies, II. iv. A loaf, Half a cheese, and a bottle of Chablis.
