a. and sb. Also 6–7 burgonian. [f. the territorial name Burgundy (L. Burgundia, F. Bourgogne) + -AN.]
A. adj. Belonging to Burgundy (in any of the senses of the name). † Burgonian cross = St. Andrew’s cross (see ANDREW). Burgundian hay: = Burgundy Hay, see BURGUNDY 4. Burgundian pear: an old variety of pear of globular shape and delicate flavor.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, III. xiii. 334. The leaves are set togyther, standing lyke to a Burgonian Crosse.
1607. Topsell, Serpents, 666. As it were in form of a Burgonian crosse, or of the letter X.
1664. Evelyn, Kal. Hort. (1727), 234. Burgundian Grape.
1671. Grew, Anat. Plants, vi. § 10. Amongst Pears, the Burgundian.
1712. trans. Pomet’s Hist. Drugs, I. 12. Burgundian Hay … is a Species of Trefoil, or Saintfoin.
1832. G. Downes, Lett. Cont. Countries, I. 527. Some traces of Burgundian times, still extant here.
B. sb. 1. An inhabitant of Burgundy; also used for one of the Teutonic nation of the Burgunds, from whom Burgundy received its name.
† 2. (In form Burgonian) A kind of ship; perh. merely a ship built in the Burgundian dominions, which in the 15th c. included the Netherlands.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 86. The Vindili, part of whom be the Burgundians.
1618. Perkin Warb., in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793), 60. A conference he had once with a Burgonian.
1627. Drayton, Agincourt, 110. Foure Burgonians excellently man’d.
