bougie
adjective
relating to or characteristic of a person who indulges in some of the luxuries and comforts of a fancy lifestyle.
bougies
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pluralof bougie.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Treatment of Pulsion Diverticulum.—If the pouch is small, the subdiverticular esophageal orifice may be dilated with esophagoscopic bougies, thus overcoming the etiologic factor of spastic or organic stenosis.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
These endoscopic bougies are made in sizes from 8 to 40, French scale.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
He punctured his tires, had a big hole in his reservoir, his steering gear bent, his bougies always doing something they oughtn't to.
From Chateau and Country Life in France by Mary Alsop King Waddington
One gratefully appreciates this, after juggling every few days with disheartening lists of accumulated coffees and eggs and dinners and rooms and mineral waters and service and bougies, and the others.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix
The olive heads of the bougies are drilled for threading from the tip to one side of the base.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
