frontignac

frontignac

English

Noun

frontignac (plural frontignacs)

1. A type of muscat wine made in Frontignan, France.
   • 1789, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale 1989, p. 21:

     I went upon 'Change; took soup at Birch's; dined tête-à-tête with Dilly and drank a bottle of frontignac.