vin ordinaire
/vã ˌɔːdɪˈnɛː
/noun (plural vins ordinaires) [mass noun]
Cheap table wine for everyday use.It was once known as vin de consommation courante or, less formally, vin ordinaire....
- Wine lovers are familiar with the adequate little red wine that better restaurants serve as their vin ordinaire.
- Pasta, baguettes and vin ordinaire are familiar staples on a skiing holiday, but not for guests at Le Chardon Mountain Lodges, in Val d' Isère, where packets of penne and vinegary red wine are definitely off the evening menu.
Origin
French, literally 'ordinary wine'.
Rhymes
- blackberry winter
- black betty
- black bile
- black bill
- black-billed
- black-billed cuckoo
- black bindweed
- blackbird
- blackbirder
- blackbirding
- black blizzard
- black-blooded
- blackboard
- blackboard jungle
- black body
- black-body radiation
- black bog
- black bomber
- black book
- black bottom
- black-bottomed
- black bottom pie
- black box
- black box theater
- black box theatre