bougie

In years past, Aylesworth, who considers herself “a very bougie person,” would only eat caviar at restaurants on special occasions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

How could anyone treasure something so gauche in this bougie travel era of lie-flat seats and $1,000 a night hotels, right?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 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

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

The existence of ulceration or of an abscess pressing on the gullet also contra-indicates the use of bougies.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles

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

The stenosis is afterwards treated by gradual dilatation with bougies, which, if a tracheotomy has been performed, may conveniently be passed from below upwards.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles

The olive heads of the bougies are drilled for threading from the tip to one side of the base.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles

Sounding the esophagus with bougies to determine the level of the obstruction, or to palpate the nature of the foreign body, is unnecessary and dangerous.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson