2. An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court. [Obs.]
||Bou`chées" (&?;), n. pl. [F., morsels, mouthfuls, fr. bouche mouth.] (Cookery) Small patties.
Boud (&?;), n. A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc. [Obs.] Tusser.
||Bou*doir" (&?;), n. [F., fr. bouder to pout, be sulky.] A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room. Cowper.
||Bouffe (?), n. [F., buffoon.] Comic opera. See Opera Bouffe.
||Bou`gain*vil*læ`a (&?;), n. [Named from Bougainville, the French navigator.] (Bot.) A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceæ, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.