bourdon
English
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Noun
bourdon (plural bourdons)
- (music, archaic) The burden or bass of a melody.
- 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
- The earth tremors resumed and made a bourdon to the loud psalms that they sang, interspersed with the odd ode of Horace recited by Silas.
- 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
- The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
- The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, p. 5:
- The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, p. 5:
- The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.
- A large, low-pitched bell not part of a diatonically tuned ring of bells.
- A bumblebee, genus Bombus.
- A pilgrim's staff.
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French
Etymology
From Middle French bourdon (“honeybee, bumblebee”), from Old French bordon (“bumblebee, drone, beetle, insect”), from Medieval Latin burdo (c. C.E. 1000), first recorded in the Homilies of King Ælfric, glossed by Old English dora (“bumblebee”). Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Frankish *bordo, *burdo (“beetle, insect”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub", literally, "swelling”), from *būs- (“to erupt, burst, flow rapidly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūs- (“to move quickly”), related to Old English budda (“beetle”), Middle Low German buddech (“thick, swollen”), Low German budde (“louse, grub”). See bug.
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Noun
bourdon m (plural bourdons)
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Further reading
- “bourdon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French bordon (“bumblebee, drone, beetle, insect”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin burdo.
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bourdon m (plural bourdons)
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