Helen Fenton

Bourdon: Definition and part of speech

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Bourdon

  1. n. A kind of organ stop.
  2. n. A pilgrim’s staff.
  3. n. A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.)

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bourgeois: Definition and part of speech

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Bourgeois

  1. a. Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.
  2. n. A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.
  3. n. A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bourgeoisie: Definition and part of speech

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Bourgeoisie

  1. n. The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.