Meaning of Bourbon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A whiskey distilled in the United States from a mixture of grains in which at least 51% is corn, aged in charred, new oak barrels.
   countable, uncountable
2. A European dynasty which reigns in Spain and formerly ruled the Kingdom of France.
3. A serving of bourbon whiskey.
   countable, uncountable
4. A surname from French.
5. A Bourbon biscuit.
   countable, uncountable
6. A Bourbon Democrat.
   Southern-US, historical
7. A white conservative, particularly in the context of opposition to equal rights for black people.
   Southern-US, historical
8. A county in Kentucky, see Bourbon County.
9. A street in New Orleans, Louisiana; in full, Bourbon Street.
10. The island of Réunion.
    obsolete
11. A town in Indiana.
12. A city in Missouri.

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Examples

“It concerns the gnomelike quality of the average American at a party. I have⟳ been to many parties where staid American business men have⟳ been transformed by a few ryes or bourbons into unpredictable gremlins out for adventure.”

“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.”

“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.”

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