bordeaux

bordeaux

See also: Bordeaux and bordeaux'

English

Noun

bordeaux (countable and uncountable, plural bordeaux or bordeauxes or bordeauxs)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Bordeaux (“fungicide; wine”)
   • 1908, Annual Report of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, Burlington:

     Twelve fungicides; bordeaux mixture, strong, weak and with soap, bordeaux powder, modified eau celeste and ammoniacal copper carbonate, alone and with soap. As between the stronger and weaker bordeauxs an intermediate was [considered].

   • 1909, Reports of the Board of Trustees of the University of New Hampshire, volume 4, page 388:

     The bordeauxs seem to have been the most efficient fungicides, with the proprietary lime-sulfur mixtures a close second.

   • 1961, John Roberts McGrew, George Willis Still, Control of Grape Diseases and Insects in the Eastern United States:

     If these commercial materials are used to make a bordeaux or a copper-lime mixture for grape sprays, [...]

   • 2006, Gene W. Heck, Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab Roots of Capitalism:

     For under Charlemagne, in particular, this industry greatly expanded, as the wine masters of Gaul began to produce their own high quality burgandies and bordeauxes in the very regions in which those modern wines now derive their names.

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Danish

Etymology

From French Bordeaux (“a city and wine region in southwest France”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔrdo/, [b̥ɒˈd̥o]

Noun

bordeaux c (singular definite bordeauxen or bordeaux'en, plural indefinite bordeauxer or bordeaux'er)

1. claret (color)
   1. (as an adjective) claret (of a deep purplish-red colour)
2. Bordeaux (wine)

Inflection

Declension of bordeaux

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bordeaux	bordeauxen bordeaux'en	bordeauxer bordeaux'er	bordeauxerne bordeaux'erne
genitive	bordeaux'	bordeauxens bordeaux'ens	bordeauxers bordeaux'ers	bordeauxernes bordeaux'ernes

Synonyms

• (as an adjective): bordeauxfarvet, bordeauxrød, vinrød
• (wine): bordeauxvin

See also

• bordeaux on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• (reds) rød; blegrosa, blegrød, blodrød, bordeaux, bordeauxrød, cerise, ceriserød, cinnober, cinnoberrød, dybrød, gammelrosa, højrød, ildrød, karmin, karminrød, karmoisinrød, kirsebærrød, knaldrød, kobberrød, kochenille, kraprød, lakrød, lyserød, mørkerød, pink, postkasserød, purpur, purpurrød, rosenrød, rosa, rubinrød, ræverød, rødgrå, rødgul, rødgylden, rødlilla, rødorange, rødviolet, sartrosa, skarlagen, skarlagenrød, teglstensrød, vinrød ^{(Category: da:Reds)}

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French Bordeaux (“a city and wine region in southwest France”), bordeaux.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔrˈdoː/
• Hyphenation: bor‧deaux

Noun

bordeaux m (plural bordeauxs)

1. Bordeaux (SW French wine)

   Synonym: bordeauxwijn

2. claret (color)

   Synonyms: bordeauxkleur, bordeauxrood, wijnrood

3. (Suriname, slang, uncountable) a Dutch passport, Dutch citizenship; a Dutch citizen
   • 2007 November 5, Anil Ramdas, “Bordeaux en donkerblauw [Claret and dark blue]”, in NRC Handelsblad‎, page 9:

     (...) in Suriname bezitten zelfs de meest nationalistische figuren gewoon bordeaux.

     In Suriname, even the most nationalistic types are in possession of a Dutch passport.

4. certain maroon dyes
5. that red-brownish colour

Adjective

bordeaux (invariable, comparative meer bordeaux, superlative meest bordeaux)

1. having the deep purplish-red colour of claret wine

Synonyms

• bordeauxkleurig
• bordeauxrood
• wijnrood

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Finnish

Etymology

From French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbordoː/, [ˈbo̞rdo̞ː]

Noun

bordeaux

1. Bordeaux (wine)

Declension

Inflection of bordeaux (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation)
nominative		bordeaux	bordeaux’t
genitive		bordeaux’n	bordeaux’iden bordeaux’itten
partitive		bordeaux’ta	bordeaux’ita
illative		bordeaux’hon	bordeaux’ihin
		singular	plural
nominative		bordeaux	bordeaux’t
accusative	nom.	bordeaux	bordeaux’t
	gen.	bordeaux’n
genitive		bordeaux’n	bordeaux’iden bordeaux’itten
partitive		bordeaux’ta	bordeaux’ita
inessive		bordeaux’ssa	bordeaux’issa
elative		bordeaux’sta	bordeaux’ista
illative		bordeaux’hon	bordeaux’ihin
adessive		bordeaux’lla	bordeaux’illa
ablative		bordeaux’lta	bordeaux’ilta
allative		bordeaux’lle	bordeaux’ille
essive		bordeaux’na	bordeaux’ina
translative		bordeaux’ksi	bordeaux’iksi
instructive		—	bordeaux’in
abessive		bordeaux’tta	bordeaux’itta
comitative		—	bordeaux’ineen

Possessive forms of bordeaux (type parfait)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	bordeaux’ni	bordeaux’mme
2nd person	bordeaux’si	bordeaux’nne
3rd person	bordeaux’nsa

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French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

bordeaux (invariable)

1. claret (colour)

Noun

bordeaux m (uncountable)

1. Bordeaux (wine)

Noun

bordeaux m

1. plural of bordeau

Further reading

• “bordeaux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French bordeaux.

Adjective

bordeaux (invariable)

1. (color) burgundy, maroon

Noun

bordeaux m (invariable)

1. (color) burgundy, maroon
2. Bordeaux (wine)
3. (organic chemistry) any of several azo dyes having this colour/color