bordeaux

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.

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

• IPA^(key): /bɔrdo/, [b̥ɒˈd̥o]

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)

• (as an adjective): bordeauxfarvet, bordeauxrød, vinrød
• (wine): bordeauxvin

• bordeaux on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• (reds) rød; blegrosa, blegrød, blodrød, bordeaux, bordeauxrød, cerise, ceriserød, cinnober, cinnoberrød, dybrød, gammelrosa, højrød, ildrød, karmin, karminrød, karmoisinrød, kirsebærrød, knaldrød, kobberrød, kochenille, kraprød, lakrød, lyserød, mørkerød, pink, postkasserød, purpur, purpurrød, rosenrød, rosa, rubinrød, ræverød, rødgrå, rødgul, rødgylden, rødlilla, rødorange, rødviolet, sartrosa, skarlagen, skarlagenrød, teglstensrød, vinrød ^{(Category: da:Reds)}

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

• IPA^(key): /bɔrˈdoː/

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• Hyphenation: bor‧deaux

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, 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

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

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

• bordeauxkleurig
• bordeauxrood
• wijnrood

From French.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbordoː/, [ˈbo̞rdo̞ː]

bordeaux

1. Bordeaux (wine)

• “bordeaux”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

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bordeaux (invariable)

1. claret (color/colour)

bordeaux m (uncountable)

1. Bordeaux (wine)

bordeaux m

1. plural of bordeau

• “bordeaux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from French bordeaux.

bordeaux (invariable)

1. burgundy, maroon (color/colour)

bordeaux m (invariable)

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

Unadapted borrowing from French bordeaux.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔr.dɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔrdɔ
• Syllabification: bor‧deaux
• Homophones: Bordeaux, bordo

bordeaux n (indeclinable)

1. Bordeaux (wine coming from Bordeaux in France)

   Synonym: bordo

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