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Bordeaux

/bɔɹˈdoʊ/ noun C2
  1. A wine coming from that area. (countable, uncountable) · We had a nice bottle of Bordeaux last night.
  2. Claret (color). (countable, uncountable)

Plural Bordeaux

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“Why, my dear boy, when a man has been proscribed by the mountaineers, has escaped from Paris in a hay-cart, been hunted over the plains of Bordeaux by Robespierre’s bloodhounds, he becomes accustomed to most things.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 110 · C1
“No, she is a Bordeaux vessel, La Gironde; she comes from India also; but she is not mine.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 332 · C1
“Well, Don Carlos will drink Bordeaux, and in ten years we will marry his son to the little queen.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 431 · C1
Show me into one of those pretty little rooms which overlook the court, and bring me a cold fowl and a bottle of Bordeaux.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 978 · C1

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