bougie

• We're pretty hardy people; ideally the area won't be too gentrified / bougie / money. —  Crate Digging Revealed
• Rick Ross steps up the bougie-rap image to a new level. —  PopMatters
• "I'm not bougie," she says, "I just got a good deal." —  San Francisco Bay Guardian: Top Stories
• Now, amongst my sometimes-bougie set of friends, my suggestion that I bake my son's birthday cake is met with horror. —  elle, phd
• The plug is retained for about seven days Modifications of this method have been tried by Wells, Rothmund, and Redfern Davies, all aiming in the direction of simplicity; but by far the most simple and efficacious method on the Wützer principle yet devised is that of Professor Syme, which he described in the pages of the Edinburgh Medical Journal for May 1861, in which the invagination of integument is both simply and securely managed by strong threads, as in Gerdy's method, while a piece of bougie or gutta-percha, to which the threads are fixed, replaces Wützer's expensive and complicated apparatus. —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners

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