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Bordeaux

noun

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

Any of several red or white wines produced around Bordeaux, France or wines resembling them. Synonym: Bordeaux wine.

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... know what they are saying? They are saying that Maitre Placat, the Bordeaux advocate, is ...

— Woman on Her Own, False Gods & The Red Robe - Three Plays By Brieux • Eugene Brieux

... learn to imitate the Venetian colour schemes, and to become third-rate echoes of old masters. There are a few men who paint interesting pictures in Spain to-day—Pradilla and Carbonero are among the best; but Spain does not hold a great artist. The last of all died in exile in Bordeaux in the early days of the last century, and left his gifts to ...

— Velazquez • S. L. Bensusan

... They appeared more lovely than ever, especially Ellen, who had developed into womanhood. We made arrangements to leave the two darling children in the hands of a healthy wet nurse, and set out on an expedition down the Loire to Tours, Bordeaux, and the Pyrenees, returned at the end of September by Montpellier, ...

— The Romance of Lust - A classic Victorian erotic novel • Anonymous

... damaging the reputations of our hero and heroine, we shall frankly aver the fact that both Harry and Rose partook of the vin de Bordeaux, a very respectable bottle of Medoc, by the way, which had been forgotten by Uncle Sam's people, in the course of the preceding winter, agreeably to Jack Tier's conjecture. One glass sufficed for Rose, and, contrary as it ...

— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper

... bruised head, though. Yakimov got his early in the game—and Jacobi. And gee! but that was a 'beaut' you handed Flynn—right in the solar plexus with your heel. The savate—wasn't it? I saw a Frenchy pull that in a dive in Bordeaux. I reckon Flynn won't be doin' much agitatin' for ...

— The Vagrant Duke • George Gibbs

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