bordeaux

name

1. The capital city of Gironde department, France; the capital city of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
2. A surname from French.

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A wine coming from that area.

   “We had a nice bottle of Bordeaux last night.”

   “Some fine Bordeauxes and Cabernets actually grow smoother as they sit, and are better served seven or eight years old.”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of Bordeaux mixture.

   “The two Bordeauxs used differed only in the percentage of lime which they contained.”

   “The patent Bordeauxs which are on the market have not been shown to be any less liable to produce injury than the home-made mixtures, amd many of them have proven quite inefficient in controlling diseases.”

   “Contrary to the views of many of the backers of Pickering Bordeaux, we have found a three to one Bordeaux just as good a fungicide as a Bordeaux in which only just enough lime is used to throw down all of the copper as a precipitate.”

   “Avoid overhead irrigation After harvest and before fall rains, prune out and destroy old wood and apply a Bordeaux or a fixed copper fungicide. Spray again in spring when new laterals are leafing out[.]”

3. (countable, uncountable)Claret (color).
4. (alt-of, countable, uncountable)Alternative letter-case form of Bordeaux (“fungicide; wine”).

   “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].”

   “The bordeauxs seem to have been the most efficient fungicides, with the proprietary lime-sulfur mixtures a close second.”

   “If these commercial materials are used to make a bordeaux or a copper-lime mixture for grape sprays, [...]”

   “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.”