Bourdon Definition

bo͝ordn
noun
The drone of a bagpipe.
Webster's New World
The bass string, as of a violin.
American Heritage
An organ stop, commonly of the 16-foot pipes, medium in scale but with dark timbre.
American Heritage

The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.

Wiktionary

The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • drone
  • drone pipe

Origin of Bourdon

  • Middle English burdoun bass from Old French bourdon

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from French bourdon.

    From Wiktionary

Bourdon Sentence Examples

  • The better known Bourdon gage works by allowing the pressure into a curved tube, itself of a slightly elliptical cross section.

  • But De Morgan's influence on mathematical science in England can only be estimated by a review of his long series of publications, which commence, in 1828, with a translation of part of Bourdon's Elements of Algebra, prepared for his students.

  • In the council of Five Hundred, Bourdon belonged to the party of "Clichyens," composed of disguised royalists, against whom the directors made the coup d'etat of the 18th Fructidor.

  • Bourdon was arrested and deported to French Guiana, where he died soon after his arrival.

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Words Starting With

BBOBOU

Words Ending With

NONDON

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Words Starting With B and Ending With N

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