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editun fine
editInspector Maigret (Rupert Davies) has just walked into a bar and asked for "un fine" and to talk to the patron. It's far too long since I drank in France, was the commissaire asking for a cognac? Thanks, DuncanHill (talk) 23:51, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
- It is a brandy: a cognac or possibly one of the others listed on the French Wikipedia [1] (upon translating the page with Google). Modocc (talk) 06:23, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Wikt:fine#French:
- Noun - fine f (plural fines) - a number of high grade French brandies (usually AOC certified). Alansplodge (talk) 13:29, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hopefully, monsieur le commissaire asked for une fine, or he might have been served with a fine for grammatical impropriety. --Lambiam 19:34, 25 July 2024 (UTC)