bougie
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“It’s definitely the big buzzword in every bougie exercise class,” said Los Angeles-based yoga instructor Kyle Miller.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 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
“Places can be very bougie when it comes to skincare. I feel like those places tend to be pretty judgmental,” said Preciado as his skin began to tighten into scale-like formations as the paste dried.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
Everything about its architecture is bougie and undeniably impressive, from its ornate archways to its stained glass mosaic windows.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
As soon as the œsophagus has healed, say in three or four weeks, bougies should be passed every three or four days to prevent cicatricial contraction.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
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
For cicatricial stenoses of the trachea the metallic bougies, Fig.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
Introduction of Bougies.—Œsophageal bougies or probangs are used for diagnostic purposes in cases of suspected stricture, and to aid in the detection of foreign bodies.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
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 Dix, Edwin Asa
