bourbon

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Nevertheless, skipping with their bourdons, as St. Michael's palmers use to do, they sheltered themselves from the danger of that inundation under the banks of his teeth.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Great bees hummed, like bourdons, through the silence, deepening the almost heavy calm.

From The Spell of Egypt by Hichens, Robert Smythe

In a tower on the south side—much lower, and not so clumsily built up as the twin towers—hangs one of the greatest bourdons in France.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

Nevertheless, skipping with their bourdons, as St. Michael’s palmers used to do, they sheltered themselves from the danger of that inundation under the banks of his teeth.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver