vin ordinaire
Americannoun
noun
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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
And surplus premium grapes could be bought up cheaply and blended into lower-priced wines, making America's vin ordinaire rather extraordinaire.
From Time Magazine Archive
The result is bound to be another fine grape crop, more unneeded "vin ordinaire," still lower prices, and considerable bewilderment and worry in the French wine industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
The French abstain when they can from their ill-tasting tap water in favor of vin ordinaire, and abhor the ice water that Americans call for.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ordinaire, or-din-ār′, n. wine for ordinary use—usually vin ordinaire: a soldier's mess: a person of common rank.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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