Bar-le-Duc

English

Proper noun

Bar-le-Duc

1. A commune, the capital of the Meuse department, Grand Est, France.

Noun

Bar-le-Duc (uncountable)

1. A kind of French jelly/jam originally composed of select whole currants (usually red currants or white currants) with seeds removed, made in the Bar-le-Duc region.
   • 1956, United States Customs Court Reports: Cases Adjudged..., page 347:

     In the statement published […] with respect to Bar le Duc, the Department found there had been a uniform practice of classifying Bar le Duc as jelly or jam under paragraph 751 and issued a new ruling requiring customs officers to classify Bar le Duc as berries, prepared or preserved […]

French

Proper noun

Bar-le-Duc f

1. Bar-le-Duc (the capital of the Meuse department, France)

   Holonym: Meuse

Derived terms

• Barisien
• barisien
• Barrois
• barrois

 

Paronyms

• Balduc
• Baraduc