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Word entry · 7 letters

bourbon

Best crossword clue

"American whiskey"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈbɜː(ɹ).bən/Part of speech nounSorted bbnooruStarts with BEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. American whiskey made mostly from corn and aged in charred oak barrels.

Word origin

From bourbon whiskey, originally Bourbon whiskey, of disputed provenance. Generally taken to derive from Bourbon County, Kentucky, but possibly also from Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Used in a sentence

  • It was "a fundamental impossibility" for a black person to be a Bourbon, white-supremacist Democrat, but a black individual could very well become a "progressive Democrat."
  • For the Bourbon White elite and their allies, the intimidation of the Black laborers and farmers was necessary to prevent their political involvement and to maintain their subjugated location in the economy.

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