Bordelais

[ bawr-dl-ey; French bawr-duh-le ]

noun

1. a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.

Example Sentences

One of them, the Quartermaster Bordelais, made this fine speech: "I defer to the wisdom of the tribunal."

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Here they sat down, enjoying the soft evening air, warm but no longer too warm, and watching the promenading Bordelais.

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The protectionist and the Bordelais agree upon this point, and we, as has been seen in the preceding chapters, differ from both.

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They were as the Haut Brion among the wines of the Bordelais.

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They are the Gascons of Spain, but beside them the Bordelais is a truthful, unimaginative creature.

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