bourbon

CEFRC1

/ˈbʊə(ɹ).bən/

noun

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  1. 01

    noun

    A type of American whiskey.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A Bourbon biscuit.

Examples

  • Tom pulled a bottle of bourbon out of his desk drawer.

  • Bourbon is made from corn.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Synonyms
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A serving of bourbon whiskey.

  2. 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.

More examples

In context

  • John drinks Scotch and Mary bourbon.

  • 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 ma...

  • 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."

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Origin

noun

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.