Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
trademark name, 1954 (in use from 1936), from monk of that name (1638-1715), blind cellarmaster of the monastery of Hautvilliers near Epernay, France, who was said to have discovered the advantage of corked bottles in fermentation. Dom was a title of authority, from Latin dominus "lord, master" (see domain).
Usage examples of "dom perignon".
In the kitchen was a bottle of Dom Perignon on ice and a huge plate of smoked salmon.
Keep'm, give'm away, I don't care what you do with them, but get me a nice cold bottle of Dom Perignon right away, OK?
Dunross thought Dom Perignon overpriced and overrated and knew the year, '54, was not a particularly good one.
It seemed to Isabella that their minds had been stimulated rather than dulled by the Dom Perignon.
In the plush backseat she found an elaborate bouquet of three dozen white roses and a chilled bottle of Dom Perignon.
Gelda felt light-headed, as giddy as if she had just consumed an entire bottle of Dom Perignon.
Preso dalla febbre romantica, disse al direttore della cappella che voleva venti dozzine di rose rosse, venti dozzine di garofani bianchi, un buon organista (niente musica registrata) in grado di suonare musica tradizionale, tante candele che l'altare potesse essere illuminato senza la luce elettrica, una bottiglia di Dom Perignon con cui concludere i festeggiamenti e un fotografo di prima classe per riprendere la cerimonia.
After closing the bedroom door, Travis put a second bottle of Dom Perignon in an ice bucket and loaded a compact-disk player with four albums of George Winston's most mellow piano music.
Of course no amount of amusing talk, no quantity of icy Dom Perignon could render her unaware of the excitement that was building in the showroom as curtain time drew near.
If Scott Scurlock was trapped in there, how ironic that the man who liked to go first class all the way, who drank Dom Perignon and ate at the best restaurants, was holed up on the traditional day of feasting in a beat-up little camper.
Through luck or God's pity, she'd escaped the punishment of a hangover after her romance with Dom Perignon.
We're grateful to that very fortunate monk Dom Perignon for making the discovery and being the first to, as he called it, drink stars.