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Definition of Red Bordeaux
1. Noun. Dry red Bordeaux or Bordeaux-like wine.
Generic synonyms: Red Wine, Bordeaux, Bordeaux Wine
Specialized synonyms: Saint Emilion
Derivative terms: Claret
Lexicographical Neighbors of Red Bordeaux
Literary usage of Red Bordeaux
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Mix Drinks: Or, The Bon-vivant's Companion, Containing ... Directions by Jerry Thomas, Christian Schultz (1862)
"4 gallons of high-flavored red Bordeaux wine. 6 do. plain wine. Colored to the
same shade with tincture of ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1871)
"Experiments on tlie Action of red Bordeaux Wine (Claret) on ... alcohol by
examining the effects of red Bordeaux wine ; and in general terms we may say that ..."
3. The Practical Hotel Steward by John Tellman (1913)
"... When meat is on the table, the proper accompaniment is the red Bordeaux wine,
mellow and rich, clad in resplendent purple and witu a perfumed bouquet. ..."
4. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"de Bordeaux, Bordeaux red, Bordeaux. — de chair, flesh-colored. — de chrome,
chrome red, — de cuivre, copper-red, coppery red. ..."
5. Béranger's Songs of the Empire, the Peace, and the Restoration by Pierre Jean de Béranger (1856)
"Still, from relapse I fear'd rebuffs,— On with the treatment I must go : I felt
inclined to write them puffs After a cup of red Bordeaux ! The wine, I hope, ..."
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