Bordeaux

• bordeaux (common noun)

From French Bordeaux (Middle French Bordeaulx), from Occitan Bordèu, from Old Occitan Bordel, from Latin Burdigala, from a Proto-Celtic root.

• enPR: bôr-dōʹ
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɔɹˈdoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɔːˈdəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊ

Bordeaux

1. The capital city of the Gironde department, France; capital city of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
   • 2019, Maaza Mengiste , The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 107:

     Born in Bordeaux, that famous city of wines, Montaigne, Montesquieu, and that tremendously profitable harbor where ships sailed for the coast of Western Africa on the Triangular Trade.

Bordeaux (countable and uncountable, plural Bordeaux or Bordeauxes or Bordeauxs)

1. A wine coming from that area.

   We had a nice bottle of Bordeaux last night.

   • 1989, Upscale: The Successful Black Magazine, page 68:

     Some fine Bordeauxes and Cabernets actually grow smoother as they sit, and are better served seven or eight years old.

2. A Bordeaux mixture.
   • 1898, Annual Report of the New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Stations:

     The two Bordeauxs used differed only in the percentage of lime which they contained.

   • 1911, Station Bulletin, volume 152–165, page 28:

     The patent Bordeauxs which are on the market have not been shown to be any less liable to produce injury than the home-made mixtures, amd many of them have proven quite inefficient in controlling diseases.

   • 1925, Drug and Chemical Markets, volume 16, page 338:

     Contrary to the views of many of the backers of Pickering Bordeaux, we have found a three to one Bordeaux just as good a fungicide as a Bordeaux in which only just enough lime is used to throw down all of the copper as a precipitate.

   • 1998, Pests of the Garden and Small Farm: A Grower's Guide:

     Avoid overhead irrigation After harvest and before fall rains, prune out and destroy old wood and apply a Bordeaux or a fixed copper fungicide. Spray again in spring when new laterals are leafing out[.]

From French Bordeaux (Middle French Bordeaulx), from Occitan Bordèu, from Old Occitan Bordel, from Latin Burdigala, from a Proto-Celtic root.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbordoː/, [ˈbo̞rdo̞ː]

Bordeaux

1. Bordeaux (the capital city of the Gironde department, France; capital city of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine)

From Middle French Bordeaulx, from Occitan Bordèu, from Old Occitan Bordel, from Latin Burdigala, from a Proto-Celtic root.

• IPA^(key): /bɔʁ.do/

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• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: Bor‧deaux

Bordeaux m

1. Bordeaux (the capital city of the Gironde department, France; capital city of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
2. a surname

• bordeaux

• bordelais; Bordelais m, Bordelaise f