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Definition of Bourdon
1. Noun. A pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone.
Definition of Bourdon
1. n. A pilgrim's staff.
2. n. A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.)
Definition of Bourdon
1. Noun. (music archaic) The burden or bass of a melody. ¹
2. Noun. The drone pipe of a bagpipe. ¹
3. Noun. The lowest-pitched stop of an organ. ¹
4. Noun. The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon. ¹
5. Noun. A large, low-pitched bell not part of a diatonically tuned ring of bells. ¹
6. Noun. A bumblebee. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bourdon
1. a part of a bagpipe [n -S]
Medical Definition of Bourdon
1. Eugene, French engineer and inventor, 1808-1884. See: Bourdon tube. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bourdon
Literary usage of Bourdon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organ Registration: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Distinctive Quality of by Everett Ellsworth Truette (1919)
"Coupler bourdon 16 ft. and Flauto Traverso 4 ft. bourdon 16 ft. and Violina 4
... If the bourdon is louder than the Gedeckt many of the combinations which ..."
2. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States by William Dunlap (1918)
"BECK — DEARBORN — bourdon — WEST — LENEY — OTIS — MASON — EICHOLTZ — METCALF ...
His name was bourdon. WM. S. LENEY. An English engraver, and born in ..."
3. Scientific Papers by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1902)
"THE bourdon GAUGE. [Nature, XLII. p. 197, 1890*.] ALLOW me to suggest to such of
your readers as are interested in this subject the following experiment. ..."
4. History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration in Its Relation to by Ludwig Choulant, Edward Clark Streeter, Fielding Hudson Garrison, Mortimer Frank (1920)
"Le tout dessine et compose par Ame bourdon Medecin. Elles se vendent en blanc et
... All the plates are signed: Ame bourdon delineavit, excudit CP (cum ..."
5. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829)
"bourdon L'OISE. Must we contaminate this sacred hall With the foul breath of
treason? ... Tullien, bourdon of Oise—the very men denounced. ..."
6. Power Plant Testing: A Manual of Testing Engines, Turbines, Boilers, Pumps by James Ambrose Moyer (1911)
"Instruments of this kind are called bourdon gages. Fig. ... Fig. io shows a form
of bourdon gage in which the amount of vibration of the needle due to the ..."
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