vin ordinaire
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
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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
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
He rides inside a tank-truck aslosh with vin ordinaire, ends his Cliff-hanging with stunts on a fallen footbridge.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Orange, the crowd in the Place Georges Clemenceau was as thin and spiritless as the local vin ordinaire.
From Time Magazine Archive
He does not realise the sublime and starry paradox of the phrase, vin ordinaire, which to him should be a glorious jest like the phrase 'common gold' or 'daily diamonds.'
From What I Saw in America by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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