Crossword clues for bordeaux
bordeaux
- Where the biennial Vinexpo is held
- Any of several red or white wines produced around Bordeaux in France or resembling such wines
- A major center of the wine trade
- A port city in southwestern France
- Wine in crate, red, lacking body - it's drunk in France
- French city state had money
- Lovers crossing old river to get Dutch wine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bordeaux \Bor*deaux"\, a. Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France. -- n. A claret wine from Bordeaux.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Bordeaux (; Gascon: Bordèu) is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.
The municipality ( commune) of Bordeaux proper has a population of 243,626 (2012). Together with its suburbs and satellite towns Bordeaux is the center of the Bordeaux Métropole, which with 749,595 inhabitants is the 5th largest in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called "Bordelais" (for men) or "Bordelaises" (women). The term "Bordelais" may also refer to the city and its surrounding region.
The city's titles are "La perle d'Aquitaine" (The Pearl of Aquitaine), and "La Belle Endormie" (Sleeping Beauty) in reference to the old center which had black walls due to pollution. Nowadays, this is not the case. In fact, a part of the city, Le Port de La Lune, was almost completely renovated. Bordeaux is the city which has the highest number of preserved historical buildings in France, except for Paris.
Bordeaux is the world's major wine industry capital. It is home to the world's main wine fair, Vinexpo, while the wine economy in the metro area takes in 14.5 billion euros each year. Bordeaux wine has been produced in the region since the 8th century. The historic part of the city is on the UNESCO World Heritage List as "an outstanding urban and architectural ensemble" of the 18th century.
Bordeaux is a city in France. It may also refer to:
Usage examples of "bordeaux".
Franklin had wasted no time confirming what Adams had heard at Bordeaux.
It was postmarked again in Dublin as a backstamp, and then got stamped at London and Boulogne before arriving in Bordeaux.
Bordeaux, San Sebastian, La Coruna, Lisbon, and finally through the Strait of Gibraltar.
The Saint Emilion was wholly authentic, although the Bordeaux region and its immediate neighbors had been replanted from gene banks as recently as 2330, when connoisseurs had decided that the native rootstocks had suffered too much deterioration in the tachytelic phase of ecospheric deterioration which had followed the environmental degradations of the Crash.
Are you a whisky man like myself, or does your Harrovian favour the great deep wines of Bordeaux?
A new regime was installed, dominated by supporters of the leading Marseillais Girondins, Barbaroux and Rebecquy, many of whom came from the mercantile and commercial elite of the port city, as indeed was the case at Bordeaux.
Helena in Napa, the warmer climate suits Bordeaux grapes such as cabernet sauvignon, merlot, and sauvignon blanc.
Archbishop of Bordeaux attests the case of a young ecclesiastic who was in the habit of getting up during the night in a state of somnambulism, taking pen, ink, and paper, and composing and writing sermons.
He got four louis for it, and sent me the ticket with a very tender letter, in which he assured me that he would find some money at Lyons, and that he would then return and take us to Bordeaux, where we are to find treasures.
In two days I arrived at Bordeaux, a beautiful town coming only second to Paris, with respect to Lyons be it said.
Bonnet, President of the Royal Society of Medicine of Bordeaux, had occasion to observe many soldiers during the Peninsular War, who made use of Cinchona as a preservative against different diseases, but he never found it to produce the pretended paroxysms.
Three months afterwards he got married to a very pretty girl, the daughter of a Bordeaux alderman.
Sharpe, without a battalion of his own or even a job, received permission to travel back to England with the Riflemen and so, three weeks after the French surrender, he found himself clambering on to one of the flat-bottomed river barges that had been hired to transport the army up the River Garonne to the quays of Bordeaux.
There was fresh bread and a dish of tapenade, and a good Bordeaux had been opened and decanted.
I had a hundred Louis in cash, and a bill of exchange on Bordeaux for eight thousand francs.