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The O.Fr. _bochier_ or _bouchier_, modern _boucher_, from which "butcher" is derived, meant originally a killer of goats and a seller of goats 'flesh, from the O.Fr. _boc_, a he-goat; cf.Ital. _beccaio_, from _becco_,
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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