Bordeaux

proper noun

1. 1

   The capital city of Gironde department, France; the capital city of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

2. 2

   A surname from French.

noun

1. 1

   A wine coming from that area.

   We had a nice bottle of Bordeaux last night.

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

2. 2

   Claret (color).

3. 3

   Variant of Bordeaux mixtureEllipsis of Bordeaux mixture.

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

   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.

   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.

   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[.]

Forms

plural

Bordeauxes, Bordeauxs