bougie
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Building on recent trends that paired bougie caviar with chicken nuggets and hot dogs, these startups are bringing high-end roe to everyday shoppers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
But Velto’s bougie vending machines stocked with caviar are sure to cheer you up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 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
"And all the whilst he was doing this, he was going on like really crazy bougie holidays and spending crazy amounts of money that probably wasn't his."
From BBC ● Nov. 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
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If the passage of bougies with the object of dilating the stricture is difficult or impossible, it may be made easier or possible by getting a silk thread through the stricture.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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
Larger and larger bougies are used at the successive treatments which are given at intervals of from four to seven days.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
The strictured lumen is to be centered in the esophagoscopic field, and three successively increasing sizes of bougies are used under direct vision.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
M. M. The perpetual use of bougies, either of catgut or of caoutchouc.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin