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Cordon Bleu

Definition: Cordon Bleu

Cordon Bleu

Noun

1. A chef famous for his great skill.

2. An honor or award gained for excellence.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Cordon Bleu

DomainDefinition

Literature

Cordon Bleu (Un) (French). A knight of the ancient order of the St. Esprit (Holy Ghost); so called because the decoration is suspended on a blue ribbon. It was at one time the highest order in the kingdom.
Un repas de cordon bleu. A well-cooked and well-appointed dinner. The commandeur de Souvé Comte d'Olonne, and some others, who were cordons bleus (i.e. knights of St. Esprit), met together as a sort of club, and were noted for their excellent dinners. Hence, when anyone had dined well he said, "Bien, c'est un vrai repas de cordon bleu. "
Une Cordon Bleu. A facetious compliment to a good female cook. The play is between cordon bleu, and the blue ribbons or strings of some favourite cook. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Synonym: Cordon Bleu

Synonym: blue ribbon (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cordon Bleu

Non-English Usage: "Cordon Bleu" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Swedish (cordon bleu).

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Modern Usage: Cordon Bleu

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Le Cordon bleu (1931)

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Commercial Usage: Cordon Bleu

DomainTitle

Books

  • Chocolate (Le Cordon Bleu Home Collection , Vol 8) (reference)

  • Italian (Le Cordon Bleu Home Collection, Vol 11) (reference)

  • Kitchen Essentials : The Complete Illustrated Reference to Ingredients, Equipment, Terms, and Techniques used by Le Cordon Bleu (reference)

  • Le Cordon Bleu at Home (reference)

  • Le Cordon Bleu Complete Cook: Home Collection (reference)

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Consumer Goods

  • BIA Cordon Bleu President's Tea Pot with Attached Infuser (reference)

  • BIA Cordon Bleu Sushi 2 Go 8-Piece Sushi Set (reference)

  • BIA Cordon Bleu 24-Ounce Porcelain Chowder Bowls, Set of 4 (reference)

  • BIA Cordon Bleu 4-Piece Porcelain Tureen Set (reference)

  • BIA Cordon Bleu 7-Ounce Porcelain Custard Cups, Set of 4 (reference)

    (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Expressions: Cordon Bleu

Expressions using "cordon bleu": chicken cordon bleu ♦ veal cordon bleu. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cordon Bleu

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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185

le cordon bleu

143

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107

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14

le cordon bleu school

6

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6

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5

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5

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5

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5

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4

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4

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4

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3

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3

le cordon bleu college of culinary arts las vegas

2

le cordon bleu cooking school

2

le cordon bleu recipe

2
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Modern Translation: Cordon Bleu

Language Translations for "cordon bleu"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

награда за първокласен готвач, първокласен готвач. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gordon bleu. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ordoncay eublay

   

Portuguese

  

ótimo cozinheiro. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

важная персона (bid deal, big bug, big cheese, big fish, big gun, big pot, big shot, big wheel, biggie, bigwig, formidable personality, grand seignior, great gun, heavy swell, nibs, panjandrum). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

plava traka. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cordón azul. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

cordon bleu. (various references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: Cordon Bleu

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Uraeginthus bengalus. (various references)

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Anagrams: Cordon Bleu

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-l-n-o-o-r-u"

-1 letter: uncolored, undercool.

-2 letters: coloured, condoler, decolour, uncooled.

-3 letters: becloud, blonder, blunder, boodler, borneol, boulder, bounced, bouncer, bounder, bourdon, buncoed, bundler, cloured, colored, condole, coronel, crooned, crunode, decolor, doubler, rebound, roundel, unlobed, unrobed.

-4 letters: blonde, bolder, bolero, bonder, bonduc, boodle, bordel, boucle, bounce, bourne, bronco, bundle, burden, burled, burned, cloned, cloner, colder, colone, colour, colure.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-l-n-o-o-r-u"
 

+4 letters: ribonucleoside, ribonucleotide.

 

+5 letters: counterblockade, nonreproducible, ribonucleosides, ribonucleotides.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 		5. Usage: Commercial
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern 		9. Translations: Ancient
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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