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• a variation of burgeon.

bourgeon

British  

/ ˈbɜːdʒən /

noun

1. a variant spelling of burgeon

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And further still the summer, When thy fair tree, fully grown, Shall bourgeon, and grow splendid With blossoms of its own, And the fruit begins to gather, But the buttercups are mown.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

In town, with the noise of the streets, the buzz of the theaters, and the lights of the ball-room, they were living lives where the heart expands, the senses bourgeon out.

From Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life by Gustave Flaubert

In my uncertainty as to which end would bourgeon into a head, and from which would be evolved the tail, I left both ends open that IT might be able to breathe when breath came.

From When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Marion Harland

I know no brotherhood with far-lock'd woods,   Where branches bourgeon from a kindred sap; Where o'er moss'd roots, in cool, green solitudes,   Small silver brooklets lap.

From Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems by Isabella Valancy Crawford

My budding Daphne wanted scope To bourgeon all her flowers of hope.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 by Various

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