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boutade

noun

Etymology

Borrowed from French boutade, from bouter (“to thrust”). See butt.

  1. borrowed from boutade

Definitions

  1. A sudden outbreak or outburst

    A sudden outbreak or outburst; a caprice, a whim.

    • Thus we see that Wilde's witticisms contain a wealth of unsuspected meaning. Even his apparently nonsensical boutades are Late Romantic gestures.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for boutade. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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