chicken cordon bleu

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   thin slices of chicken stuffed with cheese and ham and then sauteed

   Broaderdish

Questions about chicken cordon bleu

What does chicken cordon bleu mean?

chicken cordon bleu means "thin slices of chicken stuffed with cheese and ham and then sauteed".

Is chicken cordon bleu a common word?

chicken cordon bleu is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.