bouche [boosh] ExamplesWord Origin noun Armor.
- a curved indentation in an upper corner of a jousting shield, serving as a lance rest: used from the 14th to the 17th century.
Origin of bouche French phrase à bouche literally, with (a) mouth, said of a notched shield. See bouchée Bouché [boo-shey] noun
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Examples from the Web for bouche Historical Examples of bouche
Nor in gougre or beignet or bouche will Parmesan betray confidence.
Elizabeth Robins Pennell
The dogs were above in the tent—all but Bouche, who was permitted to be near his master.
Gilbert Parker
He touched the head as if it had been that of a child, and said: “Lie down, Bouche.”
Gilbert Parker
In a moment more he had placed Bouche at the head of the first team of dogs.
Gilbert Parker
When he is well we will go to London with It, Bouche, and we needn’t meet her.
Gilbert Parker
Word Origin and History for bouche n.
French, literally “mouth” (Old French boche, 11c.), from Latin bucca, literally “cheek,” which in Late Latin replaced os (see oral) as the word for “mouth” (and also is the source of Italian bocca, Spanish boca). Borrowed in English in various senses, e.g. “king’s allowance of food for his retinue” (mid-15c.); “mouth” (1580s); “metal plug for a cannon’s vent” (1862; verb in this sense from 1781).