bouche

• IPA^(key): /buːʃ/

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From French bouche (“mouth, victuals”). Doublet of bocca.

Sculpture of a jousting shield with a bouche.

• bouch

bouche (plural bouches)

1. (obsolete) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) An allowance of food and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants at a nobleman's palace or at court.
   • a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:

     All having Bouch of Court, (bread and beer) and six pence a day.

2. (historical and in heraldry) A slit, notch or opening in the edge of a (physical or heraldic) shield, through which the bearer's lance or sword could be used or in which it could be rested.

bouche (third-person singular simple present bouches, present participle bouching, simple past and past participle bouched)

1. Alternative form of bush (to line)

bouche (plural bouches)

1. Alternative form of bush (a lining)

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Inherited from Middle French bouche, from Old French boche, buche, from Latin bucca. Doublet of bouque.

bouche f (plural bouches)

1. mouth

   Synonyms: (vulgar) gueule; (informal) clapet

bouche

1. inflection of boucher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “bouche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French boche, buche, from Latin bucca.

bouche f (plural bouches)

1. mouth

• French: bouche