bordeaux

plural bordeauxes · plural bordeauxs

1. countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of Bordeaux (“fungicide; wine”).

   If these commercial materials are used to make a bordeaux or a copper-lime mixture for grape sprays, [...]

   1961, John Roberts McGrew, George Willis Still, Control of Grape Diseases and Insects in the Eastern United States

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   Twelve fungicides; bordeaux mixture, strong, weak and with soap, bordeaux powder, modified eau celeste and ammoniacal copper carbonate, alone and with soap. As between the stronger and weaker bordeauxs an intermediate was [considered].

   1908, Annual Report of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, Burlington

   The bordeauxs seem to have been the most efficient fungicides, with the proprietary lime-sulfur mixtures a close second.

   1909, Reports of the Board of Trustees of the University of New Hampshire, volume 4, page 388

   For under Charlemagne, in particular, this industry greatly expanded, as the wine masters of Gaul began to produce their own high quality burgandies and bordeauxes in the very regions in which those modern wines now derive their names.

   2006, Gene W. Heck, Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab Roots of Capitalism

alternative common noun bordeaux

1. The capital city of Gironde department, France; the capital city of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
2. A surname from French.

plural Bordeauxes · plural Bordeauxs · alternative common noun bordeaux

1. countableuncountableA wine coming from that area.

   We had a nice bottle of Bordeaux last night.

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   Some fine Bordeauxes and Cabernets actually grow smoother as they sit, and are better served seven or eight years old.

   1989, Upscale: The Successful Black Magazine, page 68

2. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Bordeaux mixture.

   The two Bordeauxs used differed only in the percentage of lime which they contained.

   1898, Annual Report of the New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Stations

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   The patent Bordeauxs which are on the market have not been shown to be any less liable to produce injury than the home-made mixtures, amd many of them have proven quite inefficient in controlling diseases.

   1911, Station Bulletin, volumes 152–165, page 28

   Contrary to the views of many of the backers of Pickering Bordeaux, we have found a three to one Bordeaux just as good a fungicide as a Bordeaux in which only just enough lime is used to throw down all of the copper as a precipitate.

   1925, Drug and Chemical Markets, volume 16, page 338

   Avoid overhead irrigation After harvest and before fall rains, prune out and destroy old wood and apply a Bordeaux or a fixed copper fungicide. Spray again in spring when new laterals are leafing out[.]

   1998, Pests of the Garden and Small Farm: A Grower's Guide

3. countableuncountableClaret (color).