| 词汇 | bourbon |
| 词源 | bourbon. Bourbon whiskey takes its name from Bourbon County, Kentucky, named for France’s Bourbon kings, and home of the first still that produced it. The word Bourbon for a political reactionary also derives from France’s Bourbon kings, a dynasty that reigned for over 200 years beginning in 1589, and of whom it was said that they “forgot nothing and learned nothing.” The Dictionary of Americanisms gives its first use for a political diehard as 1876. |
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