Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A dish of chicken cooked in red wine.
WordNet 3.0
- n. chicken and onions and mushrooms braised in red wine and seasonings
Etymologies
- French : coq, chicken + à, with + vin, wine. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If not, why is my right hand moving with the same deliberation with which it fed Penelope's coq au vin into the waste-disposal unit?”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘coq au vin’.
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Loan words from French
gite, coq au vin, dernier cri, clique, hors d'œuvre, touché, naïve, coquette, bourgeois, contretemps, flâneur, film noir and 63 more...
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ShuckFinn's Words
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botello360's list
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Comestibles and Libations
Food and drink words
rumfustian, grout-ale, weizenbock, zymurgy, wort, multum, coq au vin, mead, schooner, lager, malt liquor, bock beer and 47 more...
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