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bourdon::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | drone, drone pipe |
| Type of | pipe |
Examples of bourdon
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Bourdon was the first-round draft pick of the Canucks in 2005, selected 10th overall.
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Bourdon played nine games the following season, and had two goals in 27 games in 2007-08.
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Bourdon saw some of his colleagues grow a few stalks, which disappeared from their stands.
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Bourdon is specialized in the defense of human rights and victims of crimes against humanity.
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Bourdon grew up in the nearby town of Saint-Didier-des-Bois, where tractors outnumber cars.
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Bok will use its lowest bell, known as the bourdon, for the ceremony.
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Bourdon is an attorney who was involved in successfully suing former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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Bourdon warming up before a game on November 16, 2007.
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Bourdon earned a spot on the team's 2006-07 opening roster.
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- Drone: a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
- The bourdon is the heaviest of the bells that belong to a musical instrument, especially a chime or a carillon, and produces its lowest tone.
- Bourdon, bordun, or bordone normally denotes a stopped flute/flue type of pipe in an organ characterized by a very dark, heavy tone, strong in fundamental, with a quint transient but relatively little overtone development. ...
- The burden or bass of a melody; the drone pipe of a bagpipe; the lowest-pitched stop of an organ; the lowest-pitched of a peal of bells; a bumblebee
- A term often used for a heavy bell (e.g. several tons in weight).
- In a pipe organ, a large scale flute, usually wooden. In a Dutch street organ, two ranks of loudly-voiced melody flutes tuned to a strong celeste. Bourdon is often used generically to refer to stopped flute ranks in many types of organs and orchestrions.
- Pilgrim's staff, ending in a knob.
