See also: Bordeaux and bordeaux'

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Noun

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bordeaux (countable and uncountable, plural bordeaux or bordeauxes or bordeauxs)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Bordeaux (fungicide; wine)
    • 1908, Annual Report of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, Burlington:
      Twelve fungicides; bordeaux mixture, strong, weak and with soap, bordeaux powder, modified eau celeste and ammoniacal copper carbonate, alone and with soap. As between the stronger and weaker bordeauxs an intermediate was [considered].
    • 1909, Reports of the Board of Trustees of the University of New Hampshire, volume 4, page 388:
      The bordeauxs seem to have been the most efficient fungicides, with the proprietary lime-sulfur mixtures a close second.
    • 1961, John Roberts McGrew, George Willis Still, Control of Grape Diseases and Insects in the Eastern United States:
      If these commercial materials are used to make a bordeaux or a copper-lime mixture for grape sprays, [...]
    • 2006, Gene W. Heck, Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab Roots of Capitalism:
      For under Charlemagne, in particular, this industry greatly expanded, as the wine masters of Gaul began to produce their own high quality burgandies and bordeauxes in the very regions in which those modern wines now derive their names.

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Etymology

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From French Bordeaux (a city and wine region in southwest France).

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  • IPA(key): /bɔrdo/, [b̥ɒˈd̥o]

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bordeaux c (singular definite bordeauxen or bordeaux'en, plural indefinite bordeauxer or bordeaux'er)

  1. claret (color/colour)
    1. (as an adjective) claret (of a deep purplish-red colour)
  2. Bordeaux (wine)

Inflection

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Declension of bordeaux
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bordeaux bordeauxen
bordeaux'en
bordeauxer
bordeaux'er
bordeauxerne
bordeaux'erne
genitive bordeaux' bordeauxens
bordeaux'ens
bordeauxers
bordeaux'ers
bordeauxernes
bordeaux'ernes

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French Bordeaux (a city and wine region in southwest France), bordeaux.

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  • IPA(key): /bɔrˈdoː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: bor‧deaux

Noun

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bordeaux m (plural bordeauxs)

  1. Bordeaux (SW French wine)
    Synonym: bordeauxwijn
  2. claret (color/colour)
    Synonyms: bordeauxkleur, bordeauxrood, wijnrood
  3. (Suriname, slang, uncountable) a Dutch passport, Dutch citizenship; a Dutch citizen
    • 2007 November 5, Anil Ramdas, “Bordeaux en donkerblauw [Claret and dark blue]”, in NRC Handelsblad[1], page 9:
      (...) in Suriname bezitten zelfs de meest nationalistische figuren gewoon bordeaux.
      In Suriname, even the most nationalistic types are in possession of a Dutch passport.
  4. certain maroon dyes
  5. that red-brownish colour

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bordeaux (invariable, comparative meer bordeaux, superlative meest bordeaux)

  1. claret (having the deep purplish-red colour of claret wine)

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Finnish

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Etymology

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From French.

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bordeaux

  1. Bordeaux (wine)

Declension

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Inflection of bordeaux (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation)
nominative bordeaux bordeaux’t
genitive bordeaux’n bordeaux’iden
bordeaux’itten
partitive bordeaux’ta bordeaux’ita
illative bordeaux’hon bordeaux’ihin
singular plural
nominative bordeaux bordeaux’t
accusative nom. bordeaux bordeaux’t
gen. bordeaux’n
genitive bordeaux’n bordeaux’iden
bordeaux’itten
partitive bordeaux’ta bordeaux’ita
inessive bordeaux’ssa bordeaux’issa
elative bordeaux’sta bordeaux’ista
illative bordeaux’hon bordeaux’ihin
adessive bordeaux’lla bordeaux’illa
ablative bordeaux’lta bordeaux’ilta
allative bordeaux’lle bordeaux’ille
essive bordeaux’na bordeaux’ina
translative bordeaux’ksi bordeaux’iksi
abessive bordeaux’tta bordeaux’itta
instructive bordeaux’in
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of bordeaux (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation)

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French

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bordeaux (invariable)

  1. claret (color/colour)

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bordeaux m (uncountable)

  1. Bordeaux (wine)

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bordeaux m

  1. plural of bordeau

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French Bordeaux (Bordeaux wine).

Noun

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bordeaux (plural bordeaux-bordeaux)

  1. Bordeaux (wine)

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Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French bordeaux.

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bordeaux (invariable)

  1. burgundy, maroon (color/colour)

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bordeaux m (invariable)

  1. burgundy, maroon (color/colour)
  2. Bordeaux (wine)
  3. (organic chemistry) any of several azo dyes having this colour/color

References

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  1. ^ bordeaux in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Polish

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bordeaux

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French bordeaux.

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bordeaux n (indeclinable)

  1. Bordeaux (wine coming from Bordeaux in France)
    Synonym: bordo
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Further reading

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  • bordeaux in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • bordeaux in Polish dictionaries at PWN