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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 ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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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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