vin ordinaire

English

Etymology

French, literally "common wine".

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.

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