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wine vinegar

wine vinegar

7 2.0
A sour liquid made from wine used for cooking and salad dressing
  • noun
  • /waɪn ˈvɪnɪɡər/
translation icon : vinagre de vino
  • We conquer grape juice and red wine vinegar, and we also have sorrel.
  • red wine vinegar
  • tablespoon of wine vinegar
  • cup of wine vinegar

And a bit of white wine or white wine vinegar.

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Examples

  • I used wine vinegar to create a tangy dressing for my salad.

  • On a white and porous slice, Marc had squirted wine vinegar.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • 1/3 cup red wine vinegar

    Blog text (28)
  • OK, I'm going to make the dressing for my slow a little bit of the mayonnaise, some white wine vinegar, mix it together.

  • Red Wine Vinegar

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  • When I did the laundry, I didn't have white vinegar, but I had red wine vinegar.

    Blog text (18)
  • Second one we're gonna make, whole-grain mustard, some sage... and a little bit of rice wine vinegar.

  • For the recipe, mix olive oil with wine vinegar and fresh herbs.

  • You can enhance the flavor of your dishes by adding a splash of wine vinegar.

Synonyms

vinegar
vswine vinegar
140 1.2

A sour liquid from wine or cider used to flavor food and clean

is a specific type made from fermented grape juice for cooking and dressings
cider vinegar
vswine vinegar
7 2.3

A sour liquid made from apples that you use to flavor food like salads

is produced from fermented grape juice rather than from apple juice

How Acidic

wine vinegar
7 2.0

Surface Forms

wine vinegar singular
wine vinegars plural

Morphology

wine + vinegar

The meaning 'vinegar made from fermented wine' is transparently derived from combining 'wine' (the source) with 'vinegar' (the product); the modifier-head noun pattern directly signals the origin. This compositional, cross-linguistically common construction is predictable for learners who know both constituent words.

Etymology

The noun wine vinegar comes from a simple kitchen image: when extra wine is left open it can 'go sour' and become vinegar, a sharp, sour liquid. So wine vinegar means the sour liquid made from wine that we use in cooking.