chicken cordon bleu
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4.8
- noun
- /ˈʃɪkɪn ˈkɔrdən ˈblu/
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pollo cordon bleu
- When I came to France, I had dreams of bouillabaisse, crêpe Suzette, chicken cordon bleu...
Examples
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Let's do it Stuffed chicken cordon Bleu as it was meant to be.
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Sometimes people like to serve chicken cordon bleu with a little marinara for dipping.
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For dinner, we had a delicious chicken cordon bleu stuffed with ham and cheese.
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The restaurant is famous for its chicken cordon bleu, which they serve with a side of mashed potatoes.
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I learned to make chicken cordon bleu by layering thin chicken slices with cheese and ham before baking.
How Elaborate
Surface Forms
Morphology
chicken + cordon + bleu
This is a borrowed French culinary name: 'cordon bleu' is a fixed dish/style label rather than a literal composition, so knowing 'chicken' plus the literal senses of 'cordon' and 'bleu' ('ribbon/blue') does not let a B1 learner infer the specific preparation (thin chicken stuffed with ham and cheese and cooked). Because the crucial cooking/ingredient information is lexicalized in the phrase and not transparently compositional, the expression is opaque to learners.
Etymology
Chicken cordon bleu is named after the French words cordon bleu, which mean 'blue ribbon' and stood for the best cooks. Because the name suggested something 'high quality', a chicken rolled and filled with ham and cheese became known as chicken cordon bleu.