Bordelese

== English == === Etymology === From French bordelais. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -iːz === Noun === Bordelese (plural Bordelese) A person from Bordeaux. 1827, Charles Angélique François Huchet comte de La Bédoyère, Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, page 787: [...] the Bordelese flattered themselves with being seconded by the troops of the line [...] affrighted Bordelese then requested a capitulation, [...] 1885, Guizot (M., François), Madame de Witt (Henriette Elizabeth), The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848, page 298 Bordeaux and Bayonne held out for some weeks; but, on the 12th of June, a treaty concluded between Bordelese and Dunois secured to the three estates of the district the liberties and privileges which they had enjoyed under English supremacy [...] === Adjective === Bordelese (not comparable) Of, from, or pertaining to Bordeaux. 1963, Hunt Botanical Library, Adanson: Linnaeus was also in correspondence with a Bordelese physician, Jean-Baptiste Aymen,