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Definition of Bordeaux

1. Noun. A port city in southwestern France; a major center of the wine trade.

2. Noun. Any of several red or white wines produced around Bordeaux, France or wines resembling them.

Definition of Bordeaux

1. a. Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France.

Definition of Bordeaux

1. Proper noun. A city in southwest France ¹

2. Proper noun. A wine coming from that area. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bordeaux

1. a red or white wine [n BORDEAUX]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bordeaux

Boot Hill Booter Booters Bootnik Bootniks Boott's goldenrod Boraginaceae Borago Borago officinalis Borazon

Borda count Borda counts Bordeau theory Bordeaux (current term) Bordeaux mixture Bordeaux wine Border Collie Border collie Border terrier Bordet-Gengou bacillus

Bordet-Gengou phenomenon Bordet-Gengou potato blood agar Bordet and Gengou reaction Bordetella parapertussis Bordetella pertussis Bordon Bordwellian Boreas

Literary usage of Bordeaux

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Aquitaine was lost to France by the annulment of that marriage between Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine which was celebrated in the Cathedral of Bordeaux ..."

2. The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages by Hastings Rashdall, Pedro Beltrán, Solomon Northup, Robin George Collingwood (1895)
"Like Caen, the University of Bordeaux arose during the English domination in ... Situated at the mouth of the river by which the students of Bordeaux might ..."

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