Bourguignon

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Beef bourguignon, or a similar dish replacing beef with some other ingredient. countable, uncountable

    "[…] he brought it all up in one of those ice boxes, along with clams and scallops and bread, shortbread even. The guy would freeze his arm if he thought he could make a nice bourguignon with it."

  2. 2
    reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Romance Burgundian language or dialect.

    "He published an edition of Virgil in the Bourguignon dialect, with notes, at Dijon, in 1831."

Synonyms

All synonyms
bourguignon sauceburgundianburgundianburgundy sauce

Example

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"[…] he brought it all up in one of those ice boxes, along with clams and scallops and bread, shortbread even. The guy would freeze his arm if he thought he could make a nice bourguignon with it."

Etymology

Borrowed from French bourguignon.

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