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Chateau Migraine en · NOUN

Etymology

From chateau (“a wine-producing estate”) + migraine (“a severe headache”). Compare, for example, Château d'Armailhac or numerous other French wineries.

Meanings

  1. (humorous, slang) Wine or other spirits of low quality, thought to cause a headache.
    • The flesh therefore does not determine the color. What determines the color is the intensity of natural dyes that are present in the grape skin (and in the cheap stuff the added dyes, abundantly present in most "Chateau Migraines"). 2019, Roel Peters, “Rosé”, in RP Vinos:

Forms

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Chateau Migraines Number=Plur lexicographic
château migraine alternative lexicographic
Chateaux Migraine Number=Plur uncommon lexicographic
Château Migraine alternative lexicographic
chateau migraine alternative lexicographic

wikipedia: Château d'Armailhac