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I have been invited to a fall wedding where the attire for all guests is “formal - must be maroon or burgundy. Nothing that resembles purple or wine.” This confuses me because to me, wine is burgundy. Would this dress work? If not, can someone please explain the difference??
I was asked to buy burgundy scrubs for my new job and I can’t find any scrubs when searching burgundy on the recommended site. But when I looked up wine all the scrubs seem to be the same color that the workers were wearing during my shadow. Are wine and burgundy the same color?
Hello, as a French native speaker who lives in an English speaking country now, I noticed that the word for the colour "burgundy" in English is translated into French into "bordeaux." I was wondering if anyone has an explanation for that difference. Both mean the same colour, and even in Quebec, the colour is not called "bordeaux" but "bourgogne" (the French word for burgundy).
I found that weird, especially since Bordeaux has been under English influence for a long time while Burgundy (region) has been under French influence and even its own country for a long time. So, I would expect the words to be at least switch the other way around.