bourbon

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see also: Bourbon

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɜː(ɹ)bən/
• IPA: /ˈbʊə(ɹ)bən/, /bɔː(ɹ)bən/

Noun

bourbon

1. A whiskey distilled from a mixture of grains in which at least 51% is corn, aged in charred, new oak barrels. Made in the United States.
2. A serving of bourbon whiskey.
3. A Bourbon biscuit.

Synonyms

• bourbon whiskey
• Bourbon whiskey

Translations

• French: bourbon
• German: Bourbon
• Russian: бурбо́н
• Spanish: bourbon

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Bourbon

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbʊə(ɹ)bən/, /bɔː(ɹ)bən/
• IPA: /bɜː(ɹ)bən/

Proper noun

1. A European dynasty which reigns in Spain and formerly ruled the Kingdom of France.
2. (historical, southern US) A Bourbon Democrat.
   • 1988, Herbert Shapiro, White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery, ISBN 0870235788.

     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."

   • 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.

   1. (historical, southern US, especially, Mississippi) A white conservative, particularly in the context of opposition to equal rights for black people.
      • 2014, Akinyele Omowale Umoja, We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, ISBN 1479886033

        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.

3. Bourbon County, a county in Kentucky.
4. Bourbon Street, a street in New Orleans, Louisiana.
5. (obsolete) The island of Réunion.
6. A town in Indiana.
7. A city in Missouri.

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