"In regard to the word bourdon, why it has been applied to a pilgrim's staff, it is not easy to guess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference

Pierre IV, who associated himself with Pierre de Clerck (a cousin german), made the great "bourdon" called Salvator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders] Reference

I once had a bourdon tube gauge that indicated no pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries] Reference

Burdon, Fr. bourdon, meant a staff, especially a pilgrim's staff.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Picture of Dorian Gray] Reference

S. Marcial held up his bourdon against the fire and anon it was quenched.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Legend, vol. 3] Reference

Ah, that terrible cry! deep-toned, reverberating like the bourdon of a great bell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Octopus : A story of California] Reference

A resolution states the carillon's 7-ton bourdon, or swinging bell, ring for two minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Berks county news] Reference

I know all your organ tones, from the tenor of your kindness to the bourdon of your displeasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [London Pride Or When the World Was Younger] Reference

Priors and prioresses place a bourdon (or knobbled staff) of silver in pale behind their shields.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

Yes this is a mechanical bourdon tube pressure gauge. make: General Instruments Consortium (GIC) 2.    From Wordnik.com.  [CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries] Reference

The pedal organ has open diapason, bourdon, lieblich gedeckt (from stop 10), violoncello-wood, -- 30 pipes each.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pulpit and Press] Reference

The waiter hummed to himself the melody of his little ditty in a deep bourdon as he paused a moment at the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man with the Clubfoot] Reference

Le Fil contains a bourdon, a continuous note that travels the length of the CD, connecting each song to the next.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News]

From the blare of that triumphal bourdon of brass instruments emerge the delicate voices of violin and clarinette.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Italian sketches] Reference

Later, the third below was transposed an octave higher, giving rise to the falso-bordone, faux-bourdon, or false bass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

Because there was no hole, there was no fluid getting into the bourdon tube and no pressure was being applied to the gauge.    From Wordnik.com.  [CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries] Reference

From the outer darkness floated a mysterious bourdon, which rapidly outgrew that definition and became a veritable commotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Merrithew] Reference

bourdon tube gauges that have been overpressured stretch the bourdon tube so that the pointer does not return to zero at zero pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries] Reference

The tolling of the deep-toned bourdon in the cathedral tower reverberates over the old town of Evreux as we pass along the cobbled streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Normandy, Illustrated, Complete] Reference

The note of stern renunciation has persisted like a bourdon down the ages in the lives of those who have devoted themselves to the quest of the Absolute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature Mysticism] Reference

Save for the distant bourdon of the traffic which rose to his ears like the beating of the surf, the breeze rustling the bushes in the gardens was the only sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Okewood of the Secret Service] Reference

Malines came next with forty-four, then Bruges with forty, and a great bourdon or bass bell; then Tournai and Louvain with forty, and finally Ghent with thirty-nine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders] Reference

People "is a phrase that keeps perpetually recurring with an effect like that of a bourdon stop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latin Literature] Reference

And with all dispatch he entered the Southern tower, where the great bourdon hangs, whispering: "Twenty francs!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Wall] Reference

The bourdon big of his deep bear-bass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2] Reference

Rose to the mighty bourdon of the gale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masters of the Guild] Reference

Is this a mechanical bourdon tube pressure gauge?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries] Reference

(Fr.), needs. bourdon, n., a staff. brochets, n., spikes. bubale, n., a wild ox. bucale, n., shambles. burette.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Legend, vol. 3] Reference