Also 6– Burdeux, Sc. Burdoous, 7 Burdeaux, 7–8 Bourdeaux. A city in the south of France; hence, the wine made there, claret. † Bordeaux hammer (humorous): a vinous headache.
[1483. Cath. Angl., 48. Burdus [Burdeus], ciuitas est, burdigallus.]
c. 1570. Leg. Bp. St. Andrews, in Scot. Poems 16th C. (1801), II. 342. His contagious stomack Was sa owersett with Burdeous drummake.
1576. Newton, trans. Lemnie’s Complex. (1633), 94. A Burdeaux hammer beating in his head.
1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., II. iv. 69. There’s a whole Marchants Venture of Burdeux-Stuffe in him.
1714. Mandeville, Fab. Bees (1725), I. 260. He could content himself with plain Bourdeaux, if it had a good body.
1836. Marryat, Three Cutt., iii. Don’t go abroad to drink sour wine, because they call it Bordeaux.
