Bourbon
['bɜːb(ə)n;'bʊə-] or ['bɝbən]
Definition
(noun.) whiskey distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels.
(noun.) a European royal line that ruled in France (from 1589-1793) and Spain and Naples and Sicily.
(noun.) a member of the European royal family that ruled France.
(noun.) a reactionary politician in the United States (usually from the South).
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Definition
(n.) A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France.
(n.) A politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.
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Examples
- But the beneficiaries of privilege, the Bourbon reactionaries, the short-sighted ultra-conservatives, turned down Turgot; and then found that instead of him they had obtained Robespierre. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His progress to Paris was a triumphal procession; he walked on white Bourbon cockades. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The German troops in Milan, under the Constable of Bourbon, being unpaid, forced rather than followed their commander into a raid upon Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was he that ruined the Bourbons and Mr. John Sedley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Many were very willing to come back on such terms, and let Bourbons be bygones. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The allies, after the fashion of Peace Congresses, frittered away precious time in more and more rapacious disputes; the Bourbons returned to France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The allies would not hear of any further experiments in republicanism; it was the Bourbons or Napoleon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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