coq au vin

3 8.5

A French dish of chicken cooked slowly in red wine with onions and mushrooms

noun
/kɔːk oʊ væn/

: coq au vin

It was an abiding joke between them that Lotte's mother ordered coq au vin every year.
French coq au vin
make coq au vin

Examples

We ordered coq au vin and tenderloin braised in anisette.

Fiction book (2002)
The coq au vin is good.

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Here is your Coq Au Vin.

Lulu the Movie (2016)
Wait till you taste this coq au vin.

Donnie Brasco (1997)
The night before that we had coq au vin.

Dad (1989)
The coq au vin is almost done.

God's Not Dead (2014)
Then may I recommend you the Coq Au Vin?

Lulu the Movie (2016)
"Let's go in and order our coq au vin."

Fiction book (1993)
"All right, let's have coq au vin."

Fiction book (1993)
I cooked a delicious coq au vin for dinner last night, using fresh herbs and spices.

How Rich

beef Bourguignonne

8.3

coq au vin

3 8.5

stew

110 1.0

soup

733 1.0

Surface Forms

coq au vin singular

coq au vins plural

Morphology

coq + au + vin

The phrase literally composes from French coq (rooster/chicken) + au (in/with) + vin (wine), so its meaning 'rooster/chicken in wine' directly describes a chicken braised in wine. This culinary naming pattern is cross-linguistically common and therefore would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.

Etymology

Coq au vin comes from the French words coq and vin, which mean 'rooster' and 'wine'. One popular story says cooks used old, tough 'roosters' and slowly cooked them in 'wine' to make them tender, so the name now tells us it is a chicken dish cooked in wine.