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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbʊədən/, /ˈbɔːdən/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈbʊɹdən/, /ˈbɔɹdən/

語源 1

Inherited from 中期英語 burdoun (“accompaniment”), from Old French bordon, from Medieval Latin burdō, burdōnem (“drone”). The modern pronunciation and form (for *burdon) is influenced by modern French bourdon.

名詞

bourdon (plural bourdons)

1. (music, archaic) The burden or bass of a melody.
   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     The earth tremors resumed and made a bourdon to the loud psalms that they sang, interspersed with the odd ode of Horace recited by Silas.

2. The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
3. The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 5:

     The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.

4. The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.
5. A large, low-pitched bell not part of a diatonically tuned ring of bells.
6. A bumblebee, genus Bombus.

語源 2

Inherited from 中期英語 burdoun (“pilgrim's staff”), from Old French bordon, from Medieval Latin burdō, burdōnem (“pilgrim's staff”). The modern pronunciation and form is also influenced by modern French bourdon.

別の表記

• bordon, burdon

名詞

bourdon (plural bourdons)

1. (historical) Unadapted borrowing from French bourdon; a pilgrim's staff.
   • 1883 October, M.H. Bloxam, “On The Sepulchral Effigy of a Pilgrim in St. Mary's Church, Haverfordwest, South Wales”, in Archaeologia Cambrensis, volume 14, number 56, page 258:

     The left hand was gone, this held the bourdon or pilgrim's staff, a small portion only of which appeared over the scrip.

   • 1897 May, W. Connor Sydney, “Out With the Old Pilgrims”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 489:

     The pilgrim's return was denoted by a bunch of palm, which was tied round the head of the bourdon, the leaves being, of course, ghe guerdon of his enterprise, giving the name of Palmer to the tribe.

   • 1904, James Blanton Wharey, A Study of the Sources of Bunyan's Allegories, page 29:

     Both in Wright's text and in Lydgate's version the hutch from which Grace Dieu gets the scrip and bourdon is said to contain 'many a fair jewel.'

   • 1926, James Charles Wall, Pilgrimage, page 27:

     A thin wand is frequently bound against the pilgrim's bourdon in fifteenth century pictures.

アナグラム

• obround