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Definition: Bordeaux |
BordeauxNoun1. A port city in southwestern France; a major center of the wine trade. 2. Any of several red or white wines produced around Bordeaux in France or resembling such wines. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Bordeaux" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Bordeaux is a port city in the south-west of France, and is the préfecture (administrative capital) of the Gironde département and the Aquitaine région. Its inhabitants are called Bordelais.
Geogrpahy
The city is built on an arc of the river Garonne, and is thus divided into two parts: the right bank to the East and left bank in the West.
History
- Bordeaux was founded around 300 BC under the Roman name Burdigala
- The city was plundered by the troops of Abd er Rahman in 732, after he had defeated Duke Eudes and before he was killed during the Battle of Tours on October 10.
- From the 12th to the 15th century, Bordeaux was an English King's fief
- The 18th century was its gold age, because of the trades with the West Indies. Hotels on the quays are from this period.
- During WWI, the French government withdrew to the city.
Economy
The surrounding region is famous for the style of red wine that also bears the name, and which may contain up to five different grapes, including Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, and Malbec. The wine called white Bordeaux is made primarily from Sauvignon Blanc and Sémillon.
Miscellaneous
The philosopher Michel de Montaigne was born in Bordeaux as was Nobel laureate, Francois Mauriac.
The Girondins de Bordeaux is the local soccer team.
External link
- Official Bordeaux website: http://www.mairie-bordeaux.fr
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bordeaux."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| BOD | English | Bordeaux | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: BordeauxSynonym: Bordeaux wine (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bordeaux |
| English words defined with "Bordeaux": Aquitaine, Aquitania ♦ Bordeaux wine, Bordelais, breath ♦ Cabernet, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Sauvignon grape, claret ♦ farm ♦ grow ♦ Medoc, Merlot ♦ produce ♦ raise, red Bordeaux ♦ Saint Emilion, Sauterne, Sauternes ♦ Toulouse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Bordeaux": bottled at the winery ♦ chateau bottled, Chateaux en Espagne ♦ estate bottled ♦ Vintry Ward. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bordeaux" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (Bordeaux), French (Bordeaux, claret, maroon), German (Bordeaux), Swedish (Bordeaux). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I heard you in Bordeaux. And last year I went to Munich specially for the concert (Diva; writing credit: Jean-Jacques Beineix; Daniel Odier) The only consequence of all this will be, that whenever I open a nice Bordeaux, there will be the distant, distasteful memory of a nutcase who tried to kill me because I allowed her to kiss me on the cheek under false pretenses (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Richard of Bordeaux (1955) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 6, Bordeaux, France. : Administration building front view. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Base Hospital No. 1. Bordeaux, France. : Exterior view of wards. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | L'art guerrier et art moderne. Exposition Bordeaux, lithographies, originales, eaux fortes, pointes seches . . . Organisée par A. Le Prince editeur d'art, Paris. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Déclaration des dépudoets d'Alsace-Lorraine lue á l'Assemblée Nationale de Bordeaux le 1er mars 1871, . . . Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Grand festival des alliés. Kermesse de l'enfance . . . au profit de l'école de réeducation professionnelle des mutilés de guerre de Bordeaux. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Grande kermesse des fleurs 19 et 20 mai 1918. A l'Hôtel de Ville de Bordeaux. Au profit des oeuvres de guerre et de l'enfance. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Déclaration des dépudoets d'Alsace-Lorraine lue á l'Assemblée Nationale de Bordeaux le 1er mars 1871, . . . Credit: Library of Congress. |  | L'art guerrier et art moderne. Exposition Bordeaux, lithographies, originales, eaux fortes, pointes seches . . . Organisée par A. Le Prince editeur d'art, Paris. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Grand festival des alliés. Kermesse de l'enfance . . . au profit de l'école de réeducation professionnelle des mutilés de guerre de Bordeaux. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Grande kermesse des fleurs 19 et 20 mai 1918. A l'Hôtel de Ville de Bordeaux. Au profit des oeuvres de guerre et de l'enfance. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Jardin public bordeaux 1" by Blanquart Matthieu Commentary: "Jardin public bordeaux." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES, recognising the moral obligation to redress the wrong done by Germany in 1871 both to the rights of France and to the wishes of the population of Alsace and Lorraine, which were separated from their country in spite of the solemn protest of their representatives at the Assembly of Bordeaux Agree upon the following Articles: ARTICLE 5l. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | France | Other cities--Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Nice, Bordeaux. (references) |
Moldova | Grapes are collected from 170 thousand hectares of vineyards, an area broadly the same size as Bordeaux in France, but capable of producing a full range of red, white, and sparkling wines. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Bordeaux" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 92.13% of the time. "Bordeaux" is used about 216 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 92.13% | 199 | 21,651 |
| Noun (plural) | 5.56% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.31% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 216 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Bordeaux" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bordeaux | Last name | 1,000 | 9,599 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Bordeaux": anisette de Bordeaux ♦ Bordeaux mixture ♦ bordeaux wine ♦ red Bordeaux. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Bordeaux": Bordeaux-la, bordeaux-merignac, Bordeaux-paris, bordeaux-style. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bordeaux france | 1,069 | dogge de bordeaux | 13 |
bordeaux | 488 | academy bordeaux de | 12 |
dogue de bordeaux | 324 | bordeaux de plan | 11 |
bordeaux lizette | 253 | dogue de bordeaux rescue | 11 |
bordeaux hotel | 156 | bordeaux tour | 11 |
bordeaux wine | 69 | dogue de bordeaux puppy for sale | 11 |
bordeaux dog | 40 | vins de bordeaux | 11 |
bordeaux de girondins | 33 | vin bordeaux | 11 |
bordeaux hongrie | 25 | bordeaux lisa | 11 |
bordeaux map | 24 | bordeaux rectorat | 11 |
bordeaux breeders de dogue | 24 | bordeaux tourism | 11 |
2000 bordeaux | 22 | bordeaux de dogue picture | 10 |
bordeaux de dog | 21 | flight bordeaux | 10 |
bordeaux wine enthusiast | 17 | bordeaux hotel france | 10 |
dogue de bordeaux puppy | 17 | french bordeaux | 10 |
bordeaux restaurant | 15 | vins bordeaux | 9 |
bordeaux vinexpo | 15 | bordeaux weather | 9 |
bordeaux airport | 14 | bordeaux mixture | 9 |
immobilier bordeaux | 14 | 2002 bordeaux | 9 |
bordeaux gay | 14 | bordeaux bus | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Bordeaux"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Bordo. (various references) | |
Arabic | خمر بوردو. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Бордо. (various references) | |
Chinese | 京酱. (various references) | |
Danish | brugen af kobbersulfat tilsat kalk, kaldet Bordeaux-vaesker, er meget udbredt (called Bordeaux mixtures, is widespread, the use of cupro-calcium mixtures). (various references) | |
Dutch | Bordeaux. (various references) | |
Esperanto | Burdegalo. (various references) | |
French | bordeaux. (various references) | |
German | Bordeaux. (various references) | |
Greek | η χρήση μιγμάτων θειϊκού χαλκού και ασβεστίου που ονομάζονται Βορδιγάλειος πολτός είναι ευρύτατα διαδεδομένη (called Bordeaux mixtures, is widespread, the use of cupro-calcium mixtures). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Bordeaux-i Bor. (various references) | |
Italian | Bordò. (various references) | |
Korean | 보르도. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ordeauxbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Bordéus (Bourdeaux). (various references) | |
Russian | бордо, Бордо. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bordo. (various references) | |
Spanish | Burdeos (claret). (various references) | |
Swedish | Bordeaux. (various references) | |
Tagalog | Burdú. (various references) | |
Turkish | Bordo Þarabı, Fransa'nın Bordo Bölgesinde Yapılmış. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Бордоський, Бордо. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | rượu vang boocđô. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Bordeaux" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blondeau, Bonrepaux, Bordieu, Bordua, Borkenau, Bourdeaux, Bourdeux, Bourgeaud, Fourneaux, Nordgau, rondeaux. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-o-r-u-x" | |
-2 letters: dauber. | |
-3 letters: abode, adobe, adore, ardeb, barde, bared, beard, beaux, board, borax, bored, boxed, boxer, bread, broad, daube, debar, dobra, doura, exurb, oared, orbed, oread, raxed, redox, redub, redux, robed, uredo. | |
-4 letters: abed, aero, axed, bade, bard, bare, baud, bead, bear, beau, bedu, boar, bode, bora, bore, brad, brae, bred, bura, burd, darb. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-o-r-u-x" | |
+2 letters: bordereaux. | |
+4 letters: ambidextrous. | |
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