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chablis

/ʃa.bli/

noun, masculine/feminine/ʃa.bli/

fallen timber; Chablis (grape variety or wine)

Inherited from Old French (bois) chablis (“fallen (wood)”), from chableiz, chabler (“hit (a tree to make the fruit fall)”), with the suffix -is, ultimately from Latin catapulta (“catapult”). Cognate with accabler (“to devastate”).