ordinaire

Noun

Meaning

Wine for ordinary use.

A soldier's mess.

A person of common rank.

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Examples

One of Maugham's friends, describing the difference between Haxton and Searle, said simply: "Gerald was vintage, Alan was vin ordinaire." Source: Internet

In this letter Huygens referred several times, in a comparative way, to a conventional tuning arrangement, which he indicated variously as "temperament ordinaire", or "the one that everyone uses". Source: Internet

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