cordon bleu
noun
the sky-blue ribbon worn as a badge by knights of the highest order of French knighthood under the Bourbons.
cordons bleus
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pluralof cordon bleu.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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When the doors are opened, everybody rushes in, princes of the blood, cordons bleus, abbés, housemaids, and the Lord knows who and what.
From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole
"Bologna la grassa" does not belie its nick-name, and it is said that the matronly ladies, all over forty, who cook for the rotund priests, are the cordons bleus of Italy.
From The Gourmet's Guide to Europe by Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel) Newnham-Davis
August 25th, complimentary audience of the States; high mass with the cordons bleus; M. Bailly sworn in; vespers and benediction; state dinner....
From The Ancient Regime by John Durand
