concept
Bourbon (colloquial: a boor)
Bourbon
also: Бурбон
Used in its colloquial 19th-century Russian sense (from the French royal house, by association with crude soldierly manners) for a blunt, rough, unlettered military man -- not a reference to the dynasty itself.
Reading notes
- A Letter to a Learned Neighbor §4 a Bourbon
Used here in its colloquial 19th-century Russian sense (from the French royal house, by association with crude soldierly manners) for a blunt, rough, unlettered military man -- not a reference to the dynasty itself.