boughten
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of boughten
Example Sentences
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My other comment is that the use of boughten mayonnaise is a sin in true Southern chicken salad.
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Here was a girl who had not even a single “boughten” dollie.
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Through months of toil she had at last acquired the few dollars necessary to buy the present, and something “boughten” at that moment had a tremendous value.
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"Young ladies are not wont to take from their bosoms a boughten trinket, and slyly kiss it a hundred times a day, and—" "Grace, Grace!" cried Kate, attempting to stop her saucy speech.
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She mints her boughten wealth, and later on They meet again.
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