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Example sentences for "cordon bleu"

  • On ye brave, The cordon bleu, and then the grave!

  • The great lauder of foreign cookery had only that day returned from a special mission to France, to "write up" the works of the cordon bleu for the benefit of us benighted Englishmen.

  • Ring and Brymer, is still known by the name of the old Alderman who deserved so well of his fellow citizens, and who, whilst a cordon bleu of some celebrity, had also a pretty taste as a playwright.

  • Footnote 3: The Cordon Bleu was the badge of the Order of St. Louis, established by Louis XIV.

  • Armand--he is not a cordon bleu, but he is a good man, and does his best with what he can get.

  • But I must again tell you, as I mentioned once before, you will not find my cook a first-rate cordon bleu.

  • The witty General Barnard replied, "Your excellency must agree with me that this day has been remarkably well spent: we devoted the morning to the cordon rouge, and the afternoon to the cordon bleu.

  • I passed through this door and met my host with the cordon bleu, who looked more like the director of a railroad than a cook.

  • There are to be had for a few sous marvelous potato-peelers which turn with one twist of the wrist the most modest cuisiniere into a cordon bleu.

  • I was wondering whether you appreciated what kind of woman frequents a place like the 'Cordon Bleu'?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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