Bourbon
English
Etymology
The French Bourbon dynasty is named for the lordship of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French Bourbon l'Archambault. The town's name derives from Gaulish Borvo, a local Celtic deity associated with hot springs, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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 and 4
Sense 2, 3, 5 and 6
Proper noun
Bourbon
- A European dynasty which reigns in Spain and formerly ruled the Kingdom of France.
- (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.
- (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.
- 2014, Akinyele Omowale Umoja, We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, →ISBN
- 1988, Herbert Shapiro, White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery, →ISBN.
- Bourbon County, a county of Kentucky.
- Bourbon Street, a street in New Orleans, Louisiana.
- (obsolete) The island of Réunion.
- A town in Indiana.
- A city in Missouri.
Derived terms
References
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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Celtic *borvo (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to be hot, boil”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bourbon ?
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Gaulish
- English terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ʊə(ɹ)bən
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- English terms with historical senses
- Southern US English
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- en:Places in New Orleans
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- English terms with obsolete senses
- en:Towns in Indiana, USA
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- en:Places in Indiana, USA
- en:Cities in Missouri, USA
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- en:Places in Missouri, USA
- English eponyms
- French terms derived from Gaulish
- French terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French proper nouns
- French surnames