vin ordinaire
Americannoun
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vins ordinaires
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of vin ordinaire
Literally, “ordinary wine”
Example Sentences
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“There I discovered a love of couscous, vin ordinaire, Gauloise cigarettes and those otherworldly Citroen sedans,” he wrote.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2021
In the vast dining salon at Table No. 80, Mme and M. Yourkevitch drank vin ordinaire at lunch after the record, unnoticed, beaming with inner happiness supreme.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gallo's Paisano, for example, is a passable vin ordinaire, even by French standards, and so is Petri's Viva Vino.
From Time Magazine Archive
The population of France is stationary, and thus consumes no more of the staple "vin ordinaire" in one year than another.
From Time Magazine Archive
A late plain dinner, with my favourite vin ordinaire, recruited my strength, and kept me in perfectly good humour with Dieppe.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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