Bordeaux
pronunciation
How to pronounce Bordeaux in British English:
UK [bɔ:'dəʊ]
How to pronounce Bordeaux in American English:
US [bɔr'doʊ]
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- 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
Word Origin
- Bordeaux
- 1560s, type of wine imported from the city in southwestern France. Its name is Roman Burdigala (1c.), perhaps from a Celtic or pre-Celtic source the sense of which has been lost.
Example
- 1. The top-ranked bordeaux was latour , which came in fifth .
- 2. Other merchants say bordeaux has so much stock that merchants are trying to move it on .
- 3. The same thing has happenedin bordeaux .
- 4. According to local officials , penglai is on roughly the same latitude as bordeaux .
- 5. A cellist plays in front of two original pieces of the berlin wall in bordeaux , southwestern france .