Bordelese

Meanings

nounBordelese (plural Bordelese)

A person from Bordeaux.
Encouraged by his spirited assistance, the duchess redoubled her efforts to inspire the Bordelese with loyalty, [...]
1817, C. H. Gifford, History of the wars occasioned by the French Revolution from ... 1792 to ... 1816 ... with numerous embellishments, page 1289
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This family included […] Hamion de Bordeaux and William de Blancafort. […] Defamatory remarks by the Bordelese lead to a single combat which is settled in favor of the Lorrains.
1931, Karl Voretzach, Introduction to the Study of Old French Literature, page 214
… the Bordelese flattered themselves with being seconded by the troops of the line … affrighted Bordelese then requested a capitulation, …
1827, Charles Angélique François Huchet comte de La Bédoyère, Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, page 787
Lais, who was the first singer at the Parisian grand opera for several years, and since the restoration, was also a Bordelese.
1830, The Cities and Principal Towns of the World, page 282
Bordeaux and Bayonne held out for some weeks; but, on the 12th of June, a treaty concluded between Bordelese and Dunois secured to the three estates of the district the liberties and privileges which they had enjoyed under English supremacy …
1885, Guizot (M., François), Madame de Witt (Henriette Elizabeth), The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848, page 298
The diary entries [...] allow the patient researcher to uncover this extraordinary adventure of a Bordelese in a California in transition.
1993, The Californians

adjectiveBordelese (not comparable)

not comparableOf, from, or pertaining to Bordeaux.
However, the accidental killing of Begue by a Bordelese hunter causes another war.
1931, Karl Voretzach, Introduction to the Study of Old French Literature, Slatkine, page 214
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The impressario had met with misfortunes as a singer in the now distant days of his youth. He could boast of having been hissed on every stage in France. A Bordelese accent, which he had never been able to get rid of, had greatly contributed to his failure, [...]
1887, Fortuné Du Boisgobey, Sensational Novels, page 135
Linnaeus was also in correspondence with a Bordelese physician, Jean-Baptiste Aymen,
1963, Hunt Botanical Library, Adanson