Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A budget or pouch. Spenser, F. Q., III. x. 29.
- noun In heraldry, the figure of a vessel for carrying water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Her.) A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water; -- also called
water bouget .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
budget .
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Examples
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And when he was in safety arriued, he thanked God that had brought him thither, where he searched his bouget with more leasure then he did at the first, and founde that he had manye stones of so greate value, that sellinge them at price reasonable, for lesse then they were worth, his substaunce did amount to so much more then it was when he departed from his house.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Franconia; he bore (for there are diversities on this heraldic point) two axe-blades argent on a field gules, or a bunch of five flowers argent springing from a water-bouget gules; and he is said by witnesses in 1608 to have been described on his tombstone as a knight.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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If you would like to gash appartments in Odessa, but your bouget is predetermined we also purpose be glad to pirate you in search.
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