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Bourdon

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Noun

1. bourdon, drone, drone pipe

a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bourdon

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noun
1. 
a 16-foot organ stop of the stopped diapason type
2. 
the drone of a bagpipe
3. 
a drone or pedal point in the bass of a harmonized melody

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Bourdon

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noun
the drone of a bagpipe

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Bourdon

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n.
1. The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
2. The bass string, as of a violin.
3. An organ stop, commonly of the 16-foot pipes, medium in scale but with dark timbre.

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