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Meanings of bordun in English

Russian
бурдон
Spanish
bordone

Stopped flute/flue type of pipe in an organ.

        бурдон
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        Examples for "bourdon"
        Examples for "bourdon"
        1
        The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.
        The picture of Dorian Gray
        2
        The mourner's chant sounds above the bourdon of the tom-tom, the wail of the saringis.
        By-Ways of Bombay
        3
        I replaced our original model with one of Eugène's bourdon tubes, activated by gunpowder charges.
        Blameless
        4
        Aye, Bourdon, that was in peaceable times; but these is war times.
        Oak Openings
        5
        We are poor Injins, Bourdon; just as the Great Spirit made us.
        Oak Openings
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