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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