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  • He, in a "bourde" and mockery, making pretence that he would repeat his insult, got that which was owing him, and with interest, for indeed he could see out of neither of his squint eyes when I had dealt with him.

    A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878

  • Heureusement je viens de telephoner en voyant ma bourde et mon prochain rendez vous c le 6 juillet a 16h15!!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • The works and miracles of Christ, he observes, were not done for play; He did them "ernystfully," and we use them "in bourde and pleye!"

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • ‘If any wynes be corrupted, _reboyled_, or unwholsome for mannys body, then by the comtroller it to be shewed at the counting bourde, so that by assent all suche pypes or vesselles defectife be dampned and cast uppon the losses of the seyd chiefe Butler.’

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • “To _bourde_ or iape with one in sporte, _truffler_, _border_, _iouncher_.”

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Nikolai Artemyevitch smiled contemptuously and said: quelle bourde!

    On the Eve 1859

  • '_Quelle bourde_!' muttered Nikolai Artemyevitch between his teeth.

    On the Eve Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

  • Anna Vassilyevna kissed him on the cheek, and called him a darling; Nikolai Artemyevitch smiled contemptuously and said: _quelle bourde!

    On the Eve Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

  • "Oh, she will hear no bourde nor jest on this Pucelle that all the countryside is clashing of, and that is bewitching my maid, methinks, even from afar.

    A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878

  • "And yet it were a great bourde to play off on the English, and most like to take them and to be told of in ballad and chronicle, like one of Wallace's onfalls.

    A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878

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