boughten
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of boughten
Example Sentences
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The boughten friendship goes on at the box office; Wayne will continue to provide, provide at the rate of two pictures a year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jonathan Carrick had been a "boughten boy," indentured when he was four for $15 to an ice-hearted tobacco farmer named Alvah Stoke.
From Time Magazine Archive
Better to go down dignified With boughten friendship at your side Than none at all.
From Time Magazine Archive
“But the College could’ve boughten her at any time after she showed: seven months, eight, nine. Any.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
"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.
From Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt
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