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French
Etymology
From bougre + -esse (“-ess”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bougresse f (plural bougresses)
- (derogatory) trout (woman)
- 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, →ISBN, p. 163; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, →ISBN:
C’était, à dix minutes de chez nous, un hammam tenu par une vieille bougresse fort propre qui fumait à travers son voile des cigarettes à bout doré.- — Ten minutes away, it was a hammam kept by a very clean old trout who smoked gold-tipped cigarettes through her veil.
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