bougie

It’s set in a bougie bohemian realm inhabited by actors and writers, cultural nomads who have mystery and money, and a tinge of the sordid about them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 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

I want to tell her that nobody’s checking for her bougie man; instead I just reply, “Oh, that must be so nice for you.”

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi

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

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 E. S. Roscoe

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

The use of the œsophagoscope and of bougies is to be deprecated as not free from risk.

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

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 S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould