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Example sentences for: burgundy

How can you use “burgundy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

(It's short indeed, going from Mesopotamia to medieval Burgundy to Nicole Simpson in 10 pages.)
I fear that Dr. Richards did not have us in mind when he set to work, for he omitted to include such words as tomato, bathroom, cutlet, cauliflower , and railway station . Yet let no one say he was not a mundane man, for he gives us the Welsh for port, sherry, whisky, brandy, burgundy, claret , and even Rhenish wine . And do you know that there are ten words in Welsh for fashion ? But none, apparently, for tomato, bathroom, cutlet , etc.
The tax bill, the Journal notices, "even allows U.S. wine bottlers to continue using names, including port and burgundy, of European wine-producing regions."
But the Greeks developed few contacts with the interior beyond a little commerce in olives and wine with the Celts of Burgundy.
So a 1990 Bordeaux or Burgundy is likely to be first-rate if made by a respectable, even if unknown, winemaker.