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Bourbon en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈbɔː(ɹ).bən/
  • /ˈbɜː(ɹ).bən/
  • /ˈbʊə(ɹ).bən/

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.

Meanings

  1. A European dynasty which reigns in Spain and formerly ruled the Kingdom of France.
  2. A surname from French.
  3. (Southern-US, historical) A Bourbon 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.
    • 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." 1988, Herbert Shapiro, White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery, →ISBN:
  4. (Southern-US, historical, qualifier:especially Mississippi) A Bourbon Democrat. ▸ A white conservative, particularly in the context of opposition to equal rights for black people.
    • 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:
  5. A county in Kentucky, see Bourbon County.
  6. A street in New Orleans, Louisiana; in full, Bourbon Street.
  7. (obsolete) The island of Réunion.
  8. A town in Indiana.
  9. A city in Missouri.

Deriveds

Bourbon County · Bourbonian · Bourbonize · Bourbonesque · Bourbonish · Bourbonism · Old Bourbon · bourbon whiskey · Bourbonist · Bourbonic · Bourbon rose