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bougie

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bou·gie  (bzh, -j)
n.
1. Medicine
a. A slender, flexible, cylindrical instrument that is inserted into a bodily canal, such as the urethra, to dilate, examine, or medicate.
b. See suppository.
2. A wax candle.
[French, from Old French, a fine wax, after Bougie (Bejaïa), a city of northern Algeria.]


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