Bordeaux

Etymology

From French Bordeaux.

Proper noun

Bordeaux

1. A city in southwest France.

Noun

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, 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[.]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbordoː/

Proper noun

Bordeaux

1. Bordeaux

Etymology

Probably ultimately from the Latin Burdigala, of Celtic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔʁ.do/

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• Rhymes: -o

Proper noun

Bordeaux m

1. Bordeaux
2. A surname​.