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vin ordinaire

vin ordinaire noun: a cheap claret, used as a table wine in France.

Noun

vin ordinaire (countable and uncountable, plural vins ordinaires)

  1. A cheap claret, used as a table wine in France.
    • Cherry Jones as Nan Pierce (2023), 42:37 from the start, in Succession, season 4, episode 1: “I got a taste for hypermarché vin ordinaire when I was 19 years old and I have never been able to shake it.”
  2. (obsolete) Cheap wine mixed with water, commonly drunk in France and the south of Europe.

Forms of vin ordinaire

pluralvins ordinaires

Origin of vin ordinaire

French, literally "common wine".

Questions about vin ordinaire

What does vin ordinaire mean?
Vin ordinaire means a cheap claret, used as a table wine in France.
What part of speech is vin ordinaire?
Vin ordinaire is a noun.
What is the plural of vin ordinaire?
The plural of vin ordinaire is vins ordinaires.

Words near vin ordinaire in the dictionary

  1. vimsite
  2. VIN
  3. vin chaud
  4. vin du pays
  5. vin jaune
  6. vin ordinaire
  7. vin santo
  8. vin-
  9. vina
  10. vinaceous
  11. vinaceous dove

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