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bourdon
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bourdon
n.
drone bass of a bagpipe or organ
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Bourdon
Bourdon () derives from the French for bumblebee, and may refer to:
- A Bourdon (bell), the lowest bell in a set
- A Bourdon (organ pipe), a stopped organ pipe of a construction favored for low pitches
- Bourdon (surname)
- Burden (music): The lowest course of a lute, or the lowest drone pipe of a bagpipe
- Faux bourdon, fauxbourdon, faburden or falsobordone, terms applied (without perfect consistency) to a variety of music compositional techniques
- Bourdon, Somme, a small town in France
- Bourdon (grape), another name for the French wine grape Douce noir
- A Bourdon gauge or Bourdon tube, named after Eugène Bourdon
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bourdon
Noun
1. a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
(synonym) drone, drone pipe
(hypernym) pipe, tabor pipe
(part-holonym) bagpipe, pipes
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bourdon
nm.
bumblebee; omission; blues, state of depression, sadness, melancholy; bell, hollow metal object used to make a ringing sound
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bourdon
n.
bourdon, drone bass
