vin ordinaire

noun

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.””

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Meanings

nounvin ordinaire (countable and uncountable, plural vins ordinaires)

plural vins ordinaires

  1. countableuncountableA 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. countableobsoleteuncountableCheap wine mixed with water, commonly drunk in France and the south of Europe.

Origin

French, literally "common wine".

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MLA

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Chicago

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