‖ pinard
(pinar)
Also Pinard.
[Fr.]
Coarse red wine (orig. that issued to French troops), vin ordinaire; loosely, any wine; a glass of this wine.
| 1922 E. E. Cummings Enormous Room iv. 85 A glass apiece of red acrid pinard. 1924 Blackw. Mag. Oct. 556/2 Some of the adversaries are toasting each other in pinard. 1928 R. Hall Well of Loneliness xxxvi. 335 The Unit's rations—cold meat, sardines, bread and sour red Pinard. 1937 Partridge Dict. Slang 631/1 Pinard, liquor; wine: Soho (-1935). 1947 M. Lowry Let. Nov. (1967) 160 Wonderful skipper on this ship, engineers, seamen, cats, stewards, pinard. 1950 E. Hemingway Across River xii. 112 In a Great Hotel, wine must cost money. You cannot get Pinard at the Ritz. 1969 B. Weil Dossier IX iii. 23 He..drank a pinard as if the rough red wine would take away the taste of a probable duplicity. |