Meaning of bourguignon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Beef bourguignon, or a similar dish replacing beef with some other ingredient.
   countable, uncountable
2. The Romance Burgundian language or dialect.

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Examples

“[…] he brought it all up in one of those ice boxes, along with clams and scallops and bread, shortbread even. The guy would freeze⟳ his arm if he thought he could make⟳ a nice bourguignon with it.”

“He published an edition of Virgil in the Bourguignon dialect, with notes, at Dijon, in 1831.”

“Another consequence is that French has become⟳ increasingly different from Oïl varieties, which cannot be considered as French dialects today; Franc- Comtois, Walloon, Picard, Norman, Gallo, Poitevin-Saintongeais, Bourguignon-Morvandiau, Lorrain [...]”

“[And] instead of recovering the Bourguignon dialect, he recovered good Parisian French!”

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