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means A French beef stew slow-braised in red Burgundy wine with onions, mushrooms, and bacon until the meat falls apart tender.

from Named for Bourgogne (Burgundy), the French wine region whose red wine is the stew's backbone. It began as rustic farmhouse cooking—tough cuts of beef needed long, slow cooking, and the local wine was the natural braising liquid. The dish stayed humble for generations until French culinary codification (and later, mid-20th-century popularizers bringing French cooking to home kitchens abroad) dressed it up as haute cuisine. Same pot, fancier passport.