Bourbonic

See also: bourbonic

English

Etymology

From Bourbon +‎ -ic.

Adjective

Bourbonic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the House of Bourbon.
   • 1887, Augusta de Grasse Stevens, The lost Dauphin: Louis XVII, or Onwarenhiiaki the Indian Iroquois chief, page 106:

     The upper part of the face is decidedly of a Bourbonic cast, while the mouth and lower part resemble the House of Hapsburg. I also observed, to my surprise, that many of his gestures were similar to those peculiar to the Bourbons.

2. Having the Bourbons' obstinately conservative style of government.

Related terms

• Bourbonism, Bourbonist
• Bourbonian