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Bourguignon

Bourguignon

See also: bourguignon

English

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 9027218633):
      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 1317052005)
      [And] instead of recovering the Bourguignon dialect, he recovered good Parisian French!

French

Noun

Bourguignon m (plural Bourguignons, feminine Bourguignonne)

  1. Burgundian

bourguignon

bourguignon

See also: Bourguignon

French

Adjective

bourguignon m (feminine singular bourguignonne, masculine plural bourguignons, feminine plural bourguignonnes)

  1. Burgundian

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