Bordeaux
See also: bordeaux and bordeaux'
English
Alternative forms
- bordeaux (common noun)
Etymology
From French Bordeaux (Middle French Bordeaulx), from Occitan Bordèu, from Old Occitan Bordel, from Latin Burdigala, from a Proto-Celtic root.
Pronunciation
- enPR: bôr-dōʹ
- (General American) IPA(key): /bɔɹˈdoʊ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɔːˈdəʊ/
audio (file)
- Rhymes: -əʊ
Proper noun
Bordeaux
- 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.
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Translations
city
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Noun
Bordeaux (countable and uncountable, plural Bordeaux or Bordeauxes or Bordeauxs)
- 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.
- 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[.]
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Finnish
Etymology
From French Bordeaux (Middle French Bordeaulx), from Occitan Bordèu, from Old Occitan Bordel, from Latin Burdigala, from a Proto-Celtic root.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbordoː/, [ˈbo̞rdo̞ː]
Proper noun
Bordeaux
- Bordeaux (the capital city of the Gironde department, France; capital city of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
Declension
Declension of Bordeaux (irregular)
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French
Etymology
From Middle French Bordeaulx, from Occitan Bordèu, from Old Occitan Bordel, from Latin Burdigala, from a Proto-Celtic root.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔʁ.do/
audio (Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -o
- Hyphenation: Bor‧deaux
Proper noun
Bordeaux m
- Bordeaux (the capital city of the Gironde department, France; capital city of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
- a surname
Derived terms
- bordeaux
Related terms
- bordelais; Bordelais m, Bordelaise f