bourbon

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11
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15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈbɜː(ɹ).bən/
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/ˈbɜː(ɹ).bən/ · /ˈbʊə(ɹ).bən/ · /ˈbɔː(ɹ).bən/

Definition of bourbon

12 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A whiskey distilled in the United States from a mixture of grains in which at least 51% is corn, aged in charred, new oak barrels.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A whiskey distilled in the United States from a mixture of grains in which at least 51% is corn, aged in charred, new oak barrels.
  2. (countable, uncountable)A serving of bourbon whiskey.
    “It concerns the gnomelike quality of the average American at a party. I have been to many parties where staid American business men have been transformed by a few ryes or bourbons into unpredictable gremlins out for adventure.”
  3. (countable, uncountable)A Bourbon biscuit.

name

  1. A European dynasty which reigns in Spain and formerly ruled the Kingdom of France.
  2. A surname from French.
  3. (Southern-US, historical)A Bourbon Democrat.
    “It was "a fundamental impossibility" for a black person to be a Bourbon, white-supremacist Democrat, but a black individual could very well become a "progressive Democrat."”
    “1992, West's Federal Supplement (first series), vol. 787, p. 1090. As a practical matter, blacks had been denied a fair vote and a fair count even before the 1901 Constitution, because the Black Belt Bourbon white politicians used fraud and intimidation to manipulate the black vote to support conservative Democratic candidates.”
  4. (Southern-US, historical)A Bourbon Democrat.
    “For the Bourbon White elite and their allies, the intimidation of the Black laborers and farmers was necessary to prevent their political involvement and to maintain their subjugated location in the economy.”
  5. A county in Kentucky, see Bourbon County.
  6. A street in New Orleans, Louisiana; in full, Bourbon Street.
  7. (obsolete)The island of Réunion.
  8. A town in Indiana.
  9. A city in Missouri.

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Etymology

From bourbon whiskey, originally Bourbon whiskey, of disputed provenance. Generally taken to derive from Bourbon County, Kentucky, but possibly also from Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. Both derive from…

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From bourbon whiskey, originally Bourbon whiskey, of disputed provenance. Generally taken to derive from Bourbon County, Kentucky, but possibly also from Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. Both derive from the French Bourbon dynasty, named for the lordship of French Bourbon l'Archambault. The town's name derives from Borvo, a local Celtic deity associated with hot springs, from Proto-Celtic *borvo (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to be hot, boil”). See also Borvo.

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