bourdon

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 159 words | Copyright

bourdon †undersong XIV; (f. modF.) bass stop in an organ XIX. — (O)F. bourdon drone :- Rom. *burdō, -ōn-, of imit. orig. Cf. BURDEN2.

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