different between burgundy vs motherhouse

English

Etymology

1881, from attributive use of Burgundy (“wine from Burgundy”) from Burgundy wine from Burgundy (“region of France”) + wine.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?.??n.di/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?.??n.di/

Noun

burgundy (countable and uncountable, plural burgundies)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Burgundy (red wine).
2. A dark red colour tinged with purple, like that of Burgundy (red) wine.

Translations

Adjective

burgundy (comparative more burgundy, superlative most burgundy)

1. Of a deep purple red color like that of Burgundy wine.
   • 1981, Texas Monthly (volume 9, number 1, page 96)

     She and her beige-chemised assistant entered the salonlike fourth-floor showroom and were ushered into a smaller private room with burgundy carpeting that matched Rubylee's J. Tiktiner print dress.

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Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:burgundy.

Related terms

• beef bourguignon
• bourguignonne

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

English

Etymology

mother +? house.

Noun

motherhouse (plural motherhouses)

1. The monastery from which the other 'houses' of a religious order or congregation were (directly or indirectly) founded, often eponymous.

   The Cistercian order is called after its motherhouse Cîteaux in Burgundy, where abbot St. Bernard initiated in 1113 the reform of their branch of the Benedictine order, which has its motherhouse at Monte Cassino

2. The convent which is the seat (and often the above original foundation) of the superior of an order or congregation, and/or on which lower ranking houses (such as priories under an abbot) depend.

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• housemother