单词 | grand cordon |
释义 | > as lemmasgrand cordon grand cordon: that distinguishing the highest class or grade of such an order. blue cordon (French cordon bleu): the sky-blue ribbon worn by the Knights-grand-cross of the French order of the Holy Ghost, the highest order of chivalry under the Bourbon kings; hence extended to other first-class distinctions: cf. blue ribbon n. and adj. These and similar names are also applied to the wearers of the insignia, and by extension to other persons of distinction; cordon bleu, jocularly or familiarly, a first-class cook; also attributive and quasi-adj.extracted from cordonn.Grand Cordon Grand Cordon n. see cordon n. 6. < as lemmas |
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