(n.) A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France.
(n.) a white wine resembling Chablis{1}, but made elsewhere, as in California.
Example Sentences:
(1) Critics accuse Roux, who promotes the local Chablis wines whenever he gets a chance, of overacting.
(2) David died in the early hours of 22 May 1992, having enjoyed a good bottle of chablis and some caviar brought to her bedside by friends.
(3) That may be a common pattern: upscale restaurants and yuppie bars for the brie-and-chablis set do well, but working-class men and women still want to have a beer and cigarette.
(4) From Wednesday, the up-market grocer is offering a choice of 14 wines, including a Châteauneuf Du Pape, two Sancerres and a Chablis, under its “pick your own offers” scheme which gives MyWaitrose cardholders 20% off 10 items of their choice .
(5) Or you could get sloshed with six no-nonsense Essex girls and a lot of Chablis in a pub in Braintree.
(6) Some of us have fun drinking beer, throwing it about and wallowing in filth, some of us prefer chablis in a glass, some of us are wild and vulgar, some are polite and twitchy, some of us care about the state of lavatories, some do not.
Flinty
Definition:
(superl.) Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) Where Jim Broadbent stands as an inherently warm screen presence, his co-star's image is rather more flinty.
(2) So Gus instructs his fixer, a flinty, aging hitman named Mike, to take Jesse on as a partner for the day and give him a task that will raise his self-esteem in a way working for Walt doesn't.
(3) And there is the flinty personality, sharp, jagged, unyielding.
(4) Yet the audience eyed him with flinty scepticism, worrying away doggedly at the same unwelcome question: why won’t you tell us how you’d cut welfare?
(5) But outside the hall, in that berserk flinty wonderland of dot-eyed monsters that doesn’t actually exist anywhere outside of Farage’s own mind, it went down a treat.
(6) To be frank, he looks like a home counties Tory MP clean out of central casting – middle-aged, chinless, with that blend of plummy vowels and flinty eyes peculiar to posh hardline rightwingers.
(7) No more national curriculum, with its mumbo-jumbo instructions, learning outcomes and prior attainments; no more targets, prescriptive exams, huge burden of time-wasting and arse-covering record-keeping; no more flinty-faced, telltale, confidence-wrecking Ofsted inspectors, lurking in class with their clipboards.
(8) "We are emerging as the only party to do something on a very fundamental level which people want done in British politics which is to be tough and flinty on the difficult decisions you need to make to restore the economy to strength but doing so as fairly as possible.
(9) If Mel and Sue give Bake Off its wit, the judges – the grandmotherly, somewhat patrician Mary Berry and the flinty-but-twinkly master baker Paul Hollywood – are its twin deities.
(10) First shown giggling uncontrollably during a family dinner, Suzette is soon revealed to have a flinty, unyielding side.
(11) It seems, buried within that gaúcho flintiness and the extended freedoms he offers his players – forbidding before this World Cup only “acrobatic” sex – that Scolari has a rare ability to let high-end talent breathe.
(12) As Flinty Jim becomes increasingly peeved by emerging links to the shadowy loner who talks in metaphors about breaking lambs' necks, your blood drains, your heart leaps to your mouth and all manner of other physiological phenomena associated with banging drama occur, as well as a newfound spirituality as you start to pray that it isn't really him.
(13) With his flinty attention to text, Gaskill was as much teacher as director.