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
The vin ordinaire market is being transformed from a family trade into a highly mechanized 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
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
We lived in our cars on tinned meat and hard bread, washed down with swallows of vin ordinaire, hurriedly purchased at station buvettes.
From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Floyd Gibbons
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