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brut

very dry, as champagne
Not to be confused with:
brute – a beast; a brutal person; savage; cruel
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brut

 (bro͞ot)
adj.
Very dry. Used of champagne.
[French, from Old French, rough, from Latin brūtus, heavy; see gwerə- in Indo-European roots.]
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brut

(bruːt; French bryt)
adj
(Cookery) (of champagne) not sweet; dry
[C19: from French raw, rough, from Latin brūtus heavy; see brute]
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brut

(brut; Fr. brüt)

adj.
(of wine, esp. champagne) very dry.
[1890–95; < French: (more generally) raw, unprocessed, brutish; see brute]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.brut - (of champagne) extremely dry
dry - (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation; "a dry white burgundy"; "a dry Bordeaux"
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In 1155 Geoffrey died, and that year a Frenchman, or Jerseyman rather, named Robert Wace, finished a long poem which he called Li Romans de Brut or the Romances of Brutus.
Like Wace, Layamon called his book the Brut, because it is the story of the Britons, who took their name from Brutus, and of Arthur the great British hero.
The fact that he wrote in English shows that, for Layamon's Brut is the first book written in English after the Conquest.
If you opened a book of Layamon's Brut you would, I fear, not be able to read it.
Layamon wrote his Brut more than a hundred years after the coming of the Normans, and although his poem is in the main alliterative, sometimes he has rhyming lines such as "mochel dal heo iwesten: mid harmen pen mesten," that is:--
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