Definition of Bordeaux

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

Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center, Port
Group relationships: France, French Republic

2. Noun. Any of several red or white wines produced around Bordeaux, France or wines resembling them.
Exact synonyms: Bordeaux Wine
Generic synonyms: Vino, Wine
Specialized synonyms: Medoc, Claret, Red Bordeaux

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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