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boulette [Fr], a small ball, as of meat or dough. —boulettes de bachis,
forcemeat balls: cookery.
boulevardier [Fr], a frequenter of the boulevards, esp. in Paris.
bouleversé [Fr], overthrown; turned topsy-turvy; distracted.
bouleversement [Fr], complete overthrow; convulsion; upsetting; disorder.
bouquiniste [Fr], bookseller, esp. of secondhand books.
bourgeois [Fr; fern, bourgeoise], n. French citizen; citizen of the shopkeeping
class; commoner. —bon bourgeois, substantial citizen; prosperous
tradesman. —bourgeois gentilhomme, the shopkeeper turned
gentleman: from the title of Molière's comedy.
bourgeois [Fr; fern, bourgeoise], adj. middle-class; fig., ordinary; commonplace;
humdrum; unintellectual. —cuisine bourgeoise, plain
cooking.
bourgeoisie [Fr], the middle class; merchant or shopkeeping class.
—haute bourgeoisie, upper middle class; gentry.
bourgeon [Fr], bud; shoot. —bourgeous des pins, pine shoots; pine
tips.
bourreau d'argent [Fr], lit., executioner of money; spendthrift.
bourse [Fr], lit., purse; stock exchange; Bourse, the Paris stock exchange.
β α ύ ς 4 I T L - γ λ ώ σ σ η [ G r ; b o u s e p ì g l o s s e ] , l i t . , a n o x o n t h e t o n g u e ; a
weighty reason for silence (as if some heavy body were holding down
the tongue): Aeschylus.
boutade [Fr], caprice; frolic; whim. —par boutades, by fits and starts.
boute-en-train [Fr], the life and soul of the party.
boutez en avant [Fr], push forward.
boutique [Fr], a shop.
boutonnière [Fr], a buttonhole bouquet; buttonhole (colloq.).
bouts-rimés [Fr], lit., rhymed ends; rhymes given to be formed into
verse.
Bouvier des Flandres [Fr], lit., cowherd of Flanders; a breed of dogs
originating in Belgium.
boyar [Russ, boyarín, pl. boyare], landholding nobleman.
boyau [Fr; pl. boyaux], a winding or zigzag trench; communication
trench: mil.
bozza [It], printer's proof: typog.
bracero [Sp], one who walks arm in arm with another; a laborer; a
strong man.
bragas [Sp], breeches; esp., a kind of loose wide breeches.
braguero [Sp], orig., a truss or brace; additional girth used behind the
cinch: Texas &f western U.S.
brancard [Fr], stretcher; litter.
brancardier [Fr], stretcher bearer: mil.
brandade or brandade de morue [Fr], a ragout of codfish: cookery.