burgundy : Idioms & Phrases

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Burgundy pitch

  • a resinous substance prepared from the exudation of the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) by melting in hot water and straining through cloth. The genuine Burgundy pitch, supposed to have been first prepared in Burgundy, is rare, but there are many imitations. It has a yellowish brown color, is translucent and hard, but viscous. It is used in medicinal plasters.
Webster 1913

burgundy sauce

  • noun reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter
    bourguignon sauce; bourguignon.
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burgundy wine

  • noun red table wine from the Burgundy region of France (or any similar wine made elsewhere)
    Burgundy.
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guy of burgundy

  • noun pope who in 1122 forced the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V to sign a concordat that recognized the right of the church to choose its own leadership (died in 1124)
    Calixtus II.
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white burgundy

  • noun dry white table wine of Chablis, France or a wine resembling it
    Chablis.
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