champagning

Verb

champagne (third-person singular simple present champagnes, present participle champagning, simple past and past participle champagned)

1. (transitive) To ply or treat with champagne.
   • And equally, the central matter of Henry's infidelities has no actual dramatisation, so that we never see him coming out of a stage door with a Follies girl on his arm, or champagning a debutante, let alone entering a boudoir.1989, Bruce Babington, Peter William Evans, “‘The Love Parade’: Lubitsch and Romantic Comedy”, in Affairs to Remember: The Hollywood Comedy of the Sexes, Manchester; New York, N.Y.: Manchester...
2. (intransitive) To drink champagne.
   • We clareted and champagned till two—then supped, and finished with a kind of regency punch composed of madeira, brandy, and green tea, no real water being admitted therein.1814 April 9, Lord Byron, Thomas Moore, “Letter CLXXIV. To Mr. Moore.”, in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, by Thomas Moore. In Two Volumes, volume I, London: John...

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