Etymology

sabrage

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Today it means: The usually ceremonial technique of opening a bottle, typically of champagne, by slicing off the bottle's neck with a sabre. Full definition →

French sabrage
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  1. French · borrowed fromsabrage
  2. English todaysabrage

From French sabrage. By surface analysis, sabre + -age.

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