BURGUNDY Synonyms

• hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable

• egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow

• biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop

• round red root vegetable

• the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets

• temperament or disposition

• a dissolute man in fashionable society

• the hereditary derivation of an individual

• people viewed as members of a group

• smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill

• rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material

• a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy

• To stop working (of an electronic device)

• a dark purplish-red color

• dry red Bordeaux or Bordeaux-like wine

• drink claret

• a deep and vivid red color

• of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

• characterized by violence or bloodshed

• (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion

• turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

• any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams

• any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants

• small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking

• egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow

• hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable

• any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive

• a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I

• a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta

• of deep purplish red

• a person who is stranded (as on an island)

• a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color

• an exploding firework used as a warning signal

• of dark brownish to purplish red

• leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue

• leave stranded on a desert island without resources

• black wine grape originally from the region of Bordeaux

• dry red wine made from a grape grown widely in Bordeaux and California

• any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone

• any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit

• a highly desirable position or assignment

• exactly

• completely; used as intensifiers

• a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red

• woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries

• red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries

• a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt

• a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem

• a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers

• a deep and vivid red color

• of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

• fermented juice (of grapes especially)

• a red as dark as red wine

• drink wine

• treat to wine

• red table wine from the Burgundy region of France (or any similar wine made elsewhere)

• a former province of eastern France that is famous for its wines