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bourbon

(bʉr′bən, bo̵or′-)

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noun

Origin: 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

noun

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
a political and social reactionary

See bourbon in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A whiskey distilled from a fermented mash containing not less than 51 percent corn in addition to malt and rye.

Origin:

Origin: After Bourbon County in northeast Kentucky

French royal family descended from Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (1270?-1342), whose members have ruled in France (1589-1793 and 1814-1830), Spain (1700-1868, 1874-1931, and since 1975), and Naples and Sicily (1734-1860).

noun

A sociopolitical reactionary, especially a southern Democrat with highly conservative views.

Origin:

Origin: After the Bourbon family

French general who served Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, led a failed invasion of France (1524), and was killed while leading a German-Spanish assault on Rome.

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