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Bourbon

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Bour·bon  (brbn, br-bô), Duc Charles de 1490-1527.
French general who served Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, led a failed invasion of France (1524), and was killed while leading a German-Spanish assault on Rome.

Bour·bon 1  (brbn, br-bô)
French royal family descended from Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (1270?-1342), whose members have ruled in France (1589-1793 and 1814-1830), Spain (1700-1868, 1874-1931, and since 1975), and Naples and Sicily (1734-1860).

Bour·bon 2  (bûrbn)
n.
A sociopolitical reactionary, especially a southern Democrat with highly conservative views.

[After the Bourbon family.]

bour·bon  (bûrbn)
n.
A whiskey distilled from a fermented mash containing not less than 51 percent corn in addition to malt and rye.

[After Bourbon County in northeast Kentucky.]

bourbon [ˈbɜːbən]
n
(Miscellaneous Technologies / Brewing) a whiskey distilled, chiefly in the US, from maize, esp one containing at least 51 per cent maize (the rest being malt and rye) and aged in charred white-oak barrels
[named after Bourbon county, Kentucky, where it was first made]

Bourbon [ˈbʊəbən (French) burbɔ̃]
n
(Biographies)
a.  a member of the European royal line that ruled in France from 1589 to 1793 (when Louis XVI was executed by the revolutionaries) and was restored in 1815, continuing to rule in its Orleans branch from 1830 until 1848. Bourbon dynasties also ruled in Spain (1700-1808; 1813-1931) and Naples and Sicily (1734-1806; 1815-1860)
b.  (as modifier) the Bourbon kings
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Noun1.Bourbon - a reactionary politician in the United States (usually from the South)
extreme right-winger, reactionary, ultraconservative - an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism
2.bourbon - whiskey distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels
whiskey, whisky - a liquor made from fermented mash of grain
julep, mint julep - bourbon and sugar and mint over crushed ice
3.Bourbon - a member of the European royal family that ruled France
Bourbon dynasty, Bourbon - a European royal line that ruled in France (from 1589-1793) and Spain and Naples and Sicily
ruler, swayer - a person who rules or commands; "swayer of the universe"
4.Bourbon - a European royal line that ruled in France (from 1589-1793) and Spain and Naples and Sicily
dynasty - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
Bourbon - a member of the European royal family that ruled France
Henry IV, Henry of Navarre, Henry the Great - king of France from 1589 to 1610; although he was leader of the Huguenot armies, when he succeeded the Catholic Henry III and founded the Bourbon dynasty in 1589 he established religious freedom in France;
Translations
Bourbon [ˈbʊəbən] (Hist)
A. NBorbón m
B. ADJborbónico

bourbon [ˈbʊəbən]
A. NBorbón m (US) (also bourbon whiskey) → whisky m americano, bourbon m
B. ADJborbónico
bourbon [ˈbɜːrbən] n (US) (also bourbon whiskey) → bourbon m
Bourbon
n (Hist) → Bourbone m, → Bourbonin f

bourbon
n (also bourbon whiskey)Bourbon m
Bourbon [ˈbʊəbən] adj & nborbonico/a
bourbon [ˈbʊəbən] n (Am) (also bourbon whiskey) → bourbon m inv
Bourbon [ˈbʊəbən] adj & nborbonico/a
bourbon [ˈbʊəbən] n (Am) (also bourbon whiskey) → bourbon m inv


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Bourbon or rye, or cunningly aged blends, constituted the pre- midday drinking.
le Cardinal de Bourbon, who, for the sake of pleasing the king, had been obliged to assume an amiable mien towards this whole rustic rabble of Flemish burgomasters, and to regale them at his Hôtel de Bourbon, with a very "pretty morality, allegorical satire, and farce," while a driving rain drenched the magnificent tapestries at his door.
As to the time, it is easily fixed by the events at about the middle years of the seventies, when Don Carlos de Bourbon, encouraged by the general reaction of all Europe against the excesses of communistic Republicanism, made his attempt for the throne of Spain, arms in hand, amongst the hills and gorges of Guipuzcoa.
 
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