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Two that immediately come to mind are Bourgogne Grand Ordinaire and Bourgogne Passe-Tout-Grains.
Chateau Palmer revives an old tradition | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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According to legend, absinthe began as an all-purpose patent remedy created by Dr. Pierre Ordinaire, a French doctor living in Couvet, Switzerland, around 1792 ... [but] a certain Major Dubied acquired the formula from the Henriod sisters and in 1797, with his son Marcellin and son-in-law Henry-Louis Pernod, opened the first absinthe distillery, Dubied Père et Fils, in Couvet.
The Rise and Fall of the Green Fairy Heather McDougal 2008
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Absinthe was first distilled from wormwood, anise, hyssop and various other herbs in 1792 by a French doctor named Pierre Ordinaire, who marketd it as a cure-all tonic.
The green fairy loses her mystique ewillett 2008
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Dr. Pierre Ordinaire meant the cool, green liquid, concocted around the bitter-tasting wormwood, to be a digestive aid.
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According to legend, absinthe began as an all-purpose patent remedy created by Dr. Pierre Ordinaire, a French doctor living in Couvet, Switzerland, around 1792 ... [but] a certain Major Dubied acquired the formula from the Henriod sisters and in 1797, with his son Marcellin and son-in-law Henry-Louis Pernod, opened the first absinthe distillery, Dubied Père et Fils, in Couvet.
Archive 2008-07-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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Ask Serjeant Roland his opinion of Oliver Q.C. “Ordinaire, my good fellow, ordinaire, with a port-wine label!”
Roundabout Papers 2006
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Ordinaire, ordinaire again — thin, feeble, overrated; and so down the whole list.
Roundabout Papers 2006
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Ordinaire, trying to go down as orthodox port, and very meagre ordinaire too!
Roundabout Papers 2006
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Baliene Ordinaire of the French whalemen; the Growlands Walfish of the Swedes.
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Holding his machete in one hand and a worn notebook in the other, the secretary exclaimed, Gonaives, twenty-four March nineteen eighty-four, Séance Ordinaire.
The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985
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