bougie
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I spent more than 12 hours learning—visiting New York clubs and a “mahjong retreat” in Connecticut that was exactly as bougie as it sounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
I didn’t mind paying the fee, but I wonder if it would be worth it to get the bougie card to have year-round access.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
Gou would have felt equally at home playing in Grand Slam Oval, a patch which feels like an Ibiza beach club throughout the tournament due to a thumping sound system and bougie lounge bars.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
Turns out, the dog was just being picky, as he later scarfed down a bougie natural formula.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025
It felt a little bougie, the kind of thing that would elicit a skeptical side eye from my South Side relatives.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
It was one of those abominable bougies with holes in them to economise the wax, and which consequently had less than the proper amount of material for feeding and maintaining a flame.
From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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 Jackson, Chevalier
When the chancre is within the meatus, iodoform bougies are inserted into the urethra, and the urine should be rendered bland by drinking large quantities of fluid.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
Seventy bougies occasioned this, with the number of persons all adding to the heat of the room.
From George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by Roscoe, E. S.
For the use of bougies of the larger sizes, the special esophagoscopes with both the light-carrier canal and the drainage canal outside the lumen of the tube are needed.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
