Bourbon

See also: bourbon

English

Etymology

The French Bourbon dynasty is named for the lordship of Bourbon l'Archambault. The town's name derives from Gaulish Borvo, a local Celtic deity associated with hot springs, from Proto-Celtic *borvo (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to be hot, boil”). Compare brew and fervent.

The subsidiary senses derive from the dynasty's name.

Pronunciation

Senses 1, 2 and 5

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊə(ɹ)bən/, /bɔː(ɹ)bən/

  Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)bən, -ɔː(ɹ)bən

Sense 3, 4, 6 and 7

• IPA^(key): /bɜː(ɹ)bən/

  Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bən

Proper noun

Bourbon

1. A European dynasty which reigns in Spain and formerly ruled the Kingdom of France.
2. A surname from French.
3. (historical, Southern US) A Bourbon Democrat.
   • 1988, Herbert Shapiro, White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery, →ISBN:

     It was "a fundamental impossibility" for a black person to be a Bourbon, white-supremacist Democrat, but a black individual could very well become a "progressive Democrat."

   • 1992, West's Federal Supplement (first series), vol. 787, p. 1090.

     As a practical matter, blacks had been denied a fair vote and a fair count even before the 1901 Constitution, because the Black Belt Bourbon white politicians used fraud and intimidation to manipulate the black vote to support conservative Democratic candidates.

   1. (historical, Southern US, especially Mississippi) A white conservative, particularly in the context of opposition to equal rights for black people.
      • 2014, Akinyele Omowale Umoja, We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, →ISBN:

        For the Bourbon White elite and their allies, the intimidation of the Black laborers and farmers was necessary to prevent their political involvement and to maintain their subjugated location in the economy.

4. A county in Kentucky, see Bourbon County.
5. Bourbon Street, a street in New Orleans, Louisiana.
6. (obsolete) The island of Réunion.
7. A town in Indiana.
8. A city in Missouri.

Derived terms

• Bourbon County
• bourbon whiskey
• Bourbonesque
• Bourbonian
• Bourbonish
• Bourbonize
• Old Bourbon

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bourbon is the 33596^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 678 individuals. Bourbon is most common among White (78.76%) and Hispanic/Latino (16.67%) individuals.

References

• Bourbon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

The French Bourbon dynasty is named for the lordship of Bourbon l'Archambault. The town's name derives from Gaulish Borvo, a local Celtic deity associated with hot springs, from Proto-Celtic *borvo (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to be hot, boil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buʁ.bɔ̃/

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Proper noun

Bourbon m or f

1. a surname
2. Bourbon, a European dynasty that formerly reigned in France and now reigns in Spain
3. Bourbon-l’Archambault, a commune in France