Borodino
- proper noun
- /bɔːrəˈdiːnoʊ/
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Borodino
- Since Borodino, we've been in retreat.
- the Battle of Borodino
- Borodino, 1812
- Napoleon at Borodino
Examples
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He wore a heavy overcoat and a wool scarf, and his thin white hair was covered with a tall hat made of sable that had once belonged to a Russian officer who died at Borodino.
Fiction book (1991) -
They fell on French and Italian troops around Borodino with complete surprise, spreading panic and disorder.
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In Borodino, Pushkin wrote his best poetry.
Fiction book (1993) -
They are the wounded from Borodino.
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They fell on French and Italian troops around Borodino with complete surprise, spreading panic and disorder.
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You'll start him off on his supernaturally boring story about how Napoleon gave it to Josephine at the Battle of Borodino.
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The Battle of Borodino was one of the bloodiest battles of the Napoleonic Wars, fought in 1812.
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The village of Borodino is famous for the historical battle that took place there during Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
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Every year, historians and enthusiasts visit Borodino to commemorate the significant events of the battle fought in 1812.
Compounds
A major 1812 battle near Borodino between Napoleon's army and Russian forces with heavy losses
Surface Forms
Etymology
Borodino probably comes from the Russian word boroda meaning 'beard' or from the family name Borodin, with the ending -ino meaning 'place of'. So the village name once meant 'place of Borodin' or 'place of the beard', and that old name is the one we now use for the site of the famous 1812 battle.
