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To _bouter dehors_ the money-making unbeliever was an object that found adherents from the Rif to the Sahara, and the Saadian cherifs soon rallied a mighty following to their standard.
In Morocco Edith Wharton 1899
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Was this all that she believed herself to be appointed to do? or did she expect, as she sometimes said, to/bouter/the English out of France altogether?
Jeanne d'Arc Oliphant, Mrs. 1896
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Was this all that she believed herself to be appointed to do? or did she expect, as she sometimes said, to _bouter_ the English out of France altogether?
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[v. 04 p. 0891] BUTTON (Fr. _bouton_, O.Fr. _boton_, apparently from the same root as _bouter_, to push), a small piece of metal or other material which, pushed through a loop or button-hole, serves as a catch between different parts of a garment, &c.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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I have come from the King of Heaven to drive you out [bouter
Joan of Arc Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 1893
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