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

Place de la Bourse in Bordeaux.

1. The capital city of the Gironde department, France; capital city of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

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. Short for 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, volumes 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)

Inherited 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

Unadapted borrowing from French Bordeaux.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔr.dɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrdɔ
• Syllabification: Bor‧deaux
• Homophones: bordeaux, bordo

Bordeaux n (indeclinable, related adjective bordoski)

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

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