tirage

[ tee-razh ]

noun

, French.

, plural ti·rages [tee-, razh].

1. the withdrawing of wine from a barrel, as for testing or tasting.
2. a drawing, as in a lottery.

tirage

/ tɪˈrɑʒ /

noun

1. the drawing of wine from a barrel prior to bottling
2. the process in the making of a sparkling wine in which fermentable sugar and yeast is added to induce secondary fermentation

Word History and Origins

Origin of tirage¹

from French: drawing, pulling

Example Sentences

Si le mystère fait partie intégrante de son attrait, Invader a accepté de lever un peu le voile sur quelques détails personnels: élevé en banlieue parisienne, c’était un enfant créatif qui avait chez lui un labo de tirage photographiques , puis un étudiant de la renommée école des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

From New York Times

But at the stage known as tirage, where winemakers add a mixture of sugar and yeast to spark the second fermentation in bottle, Stoumen instead added some partially fermented juice from the 2020 harvest, allowing it to produce the bubbles by completing its initial fermentation.

From Washington Post

I believe the tirage is conducted with perfect fairness; and people thus subscribe a franc for the poor, with the agreeable, but very remote, chance of being repaid, même ici bas, a hundred thousand-fold.

From Project Gutenberg

Tirage 600 exemplaires sur papier Ingres.

From Project Gutenberg

Off′-print, a reprint of a single article from a magazine or other periodical—the French tirage � part, German Abdruck; Off′-reck′oning, an allowance formerly made to certain British officers from the money appropriated for army clothing.—v.t.

From Project Gutenberg