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bourbon definition

☆ bour·bon (bʉr′bən, bo̵or′-)

noun

Etymology: after Bourbon County, Kentucky, where it has been produced

a whiskey distilled from a fermented mash of not less than 51 percent corn grain and stored in charred new oak containers for not less than two years

adjective

designating, of, or made with such whiskey
Bourbon definition

Bour·bon (bo̵or′bən)

noun

  1. name of the ruling family of France (1589-1793; 1814-48, from 1830 to 1848 as the Orléans branch); of Spain (1700-1808; 1813-1931; 1975-); of Naples and Sicily (1734-1806; 1815-60), united as the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 1815; and of various duchies & principalities in Italy at various times within the periods 1748-1807 & 1815-60, including Parma, Piacenza, Lucca, & Etruria
  2. a political and social reactionary

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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