veal cordon bleu

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

   Broaderdish

Questions about veal cordon bleu

What does veal cordon bleu mean?

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

Is veal cordon bleu a common word?

veal 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.