Bordeauxn.
/bɔːˈdəʊ/ 1. The wine made in the Bordeaux region of France; claret.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > French wines > [noun] > Bordeaux red
claret?1533
Bordeauxc1570
Haut-Brion1663
terse1671
Margaux1705
Lafite1707
long cork1759
Médoc1793
loll-shraub1816
comet claret1828
Latour1833
Mouton1833
palus1833
St. Emilion1833
Larose1841
Pauillac1858
Pontet-Canet1860
Pomerol1866
Léoville1875
Mouton-Rothschild1880
1483 Cath. Angl. 48 Burdus [Burdeus], ciuitas est, burdigallus.]
c1570 Leg. Bp. St. Andrews in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 342 His contagious stomack Was sa owersett with Burdeous drummake.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 61 Theres a whole marchants venture of Burdeux stuffe in him. View more context for this quotation
1723 B. Mandeville Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 260 He could content himself with plain Bourdeaux, if it had a good Body.
1836 F. Marryat Three Cutters iii, in Pirate & Three Cutters 256 Don't go abroad to drink sour wine, because they call it Bordeaux.
2. A shade of red produced by any of several red azo-dyes derived from beta naphthol.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > deep red or crimson
crimson madderOE
purpureOE
murrey1305
tuly1398
oxblood?1440
crimson?a1475
sanguinea1500
carnation?1533
murrey colour1537
purple-red1565
ruby1572
sanguine red1601
velvet-crimson1646
lake1660
lac1682
rubine1704
madder red1728
ruby-red1738
granate1750
palm-colour1773
morone1777
carmine1799
vinaceous1819
incarnadine1821
crimsoning1833
pigeon's blood1865
solferinoc1865
Burgundy1881
sang-de-bœuf1881
vermilion-crimson1882
claret1884
royal red1890
wine1895
pigeon ruby red1897
Bordeaux1904
peony1914
madder crimson1991
1904 Westm. Gaz. 10 Mar. 4/2 Bordeaux-coloured straw.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 11 Jan. 5/2 The various shades of violet, blue, and what we have called Bordeaux.
Compounds
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in head > other pains in head
Bordeaux hammer1576
ale passion1593
clavus1807
brain freeze1986
1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions i. vii. f. 58 A Burdeaux hammer beating in his head.
Bordeaux mixture n. a mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water, used for the destruction of fungi.
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the world > life > death > killing > killer of nature > [noun] > fungicide
fungicide1878
Bordeaux mixture1892
Burgundy mixture1894
mildewcide1949
zineb1950
ziram1950
captan1953
thiophanate1970
triadimefon1975
procymidone1977
1892 Prev. Potato Dis. (R. Veitch & Son) 4 The Bordeaux Mixture, or ‘Bouillie Bordelaise’.
1921 Discovery May 130/1 Bordelaise, or Bordeaux mixture..was first used to cover grapes growing alongside paths and roads to prevent ‘finger blight’.
1959 Sci. News 51 30 The latter causes pod rot and can be dealt with by spraying with Bordeaux mixture.
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