Bourguignon

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bourguignon.

Proper noun

Bourguignon

  1. The Romance Burgundian language or dialect.
    • 1843, The biographical dictionary of the Society for the diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Great Britain:
      He published an edition of Virgil in the Bourguignon dialect, with notes, at Dijon, in 1831.
    • 2008, Gillian Sankoff, Miriam Meyerhoff, Naomi Nagy, Social Lives in Language--sociolinguistics and Multilingual Speech, →ISBN:
      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 [...]
    • 2016, Fanny Madeline, Meredith Cohen, Space in the Medieval West, →ISBN:
      [And] instead of recovering the Bourguignon dialect, he recovered good Parisian French!

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

Bourguignon m (plural Bourguignons, feminine Bourguignonne)

  1. Burgundian

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