à bouche

US/ɑˈbuʃ/

adjective

Having a bouche on the dexter side.

OriginFrench à bouche →
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Meanings

adjectiveà bouche (not comparable)
  1. not comparablegovernmentHaving a bouche on the dexter side.

    Upon a shield à bouche, scalloped at the base , are the arms : Azure two pallets argent, on a chief a lion's jamb erased in fesse azure, for ARRIGHI.

    1904, Albert Van de Put, Hispano-Moresque Ware of the XV. Century: A Contribution to Its History and Chronology Based Upon Armorial Specimens, page 68
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    Dish, ornamented with blue and yellow flowers and foliage; in the centre a shield à bouche : Per fess or and azure, four chains conjoined in saltire by an annulet, all counterchanged.

    1903, Marion Harry Spielmann, The Magazine of Art, page 351

Origin

  1. Frenchà bouche“with mouth”
  2. Englishà bouche

Borrowed from French à bouche (“with mouth”).

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Chicago

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