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
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
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
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
We dined, however, like princes, and drank a bottle of Château Margeaux, instead of the vin ordinaire, which was my ordinary wine.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various
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