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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vin ordinaire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)