It's a phrase, not a word: Une boîte du vin.


Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
A box of wine?

My wife loves boxed wine, but I can't imagine the French being impressed
with it...

... Is this related to the WWI thing where everybody
passed along a bottle until the last man?

Possibly.


I thought it was one word and started with a T?

Tontine. I'm not sure if it's French or Latinate Legalese.

One of the best episodes (imho of course) of TV M.A.S.H. is where Col.
Potter receives a bottle of fine French wine, a tontine from some of his
best WW1 buddies.

Regards
Doug King